Poetry Collection

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 encrypted files that asked their owner over the internet before unencrypting
 themselves
 (without going through any intermediaries)
 ... you mean like an ISP?
 yeah I know but it doesn't have to be through an ISP, if you found some kind of
 mesh network. I'm sure someone's set up a 100 second tutorial.
 true, I guess, so what you're asking for is an alternative to... btrfs? I only
 sorta know what that means
 no its like, ntfs, or is it ipfs? I forget, the acronyms swirl into one, and
 suddenly you forget someone's email signature.
 how are you gonna get ahold of them ? all your friends from the 90s? c'mon
 dummies you gotta keep in touch with one another.
 what the heck is everyone's deal, if you can't easily get in contact with anyone
 you've ever known, how the heck are you going to neatly integrate your stories
 together? it's mutually cooperative for people to learn from one another, and
 people who are exposed to another's life in different stages of their life
 (child, adult) are the people who learn thmost.
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 the left lacks a common voice telling all of them to "go"
  in the edit box is written: "the left lacks a common voice telling all of them to "go"

a boosted toot that this one is sorta in response to is:

"Guys, it's that bad. I don't know how to get it across to anyone who doesn't get it that it is that bad. Even just voting isn't enough. I hope you're doing something else, too. That was an actual Nazi rally. Things are not going to stay normal, even if you are a little bit down the line. Believe them. #uspol"

below that is another post by the author of the original post that says:

"it's important to have copies of wikipedia floating around. if the internet goes down, wouldn't it be useful to have an encyclopedia of everything?"

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 if you ever hear random fireworks outside of your house sometimes it's a good
 idea to like... get out of town? and see what whoever else you can meet in the
 next town over is doing.
 ... I don't have a car, silly me haha
 why do we train homeless people to stand outside in the open and be shamed by a
 cardboard box around their ancle? It's impossible to recover from, it's
 vulnerabilizing, and it's painful. How immoral. How crude. These people should
 not be shamed in this way, they should be respected (unless they're crude)
 like, if they kinda just suck y'know? like... they keep starting fights or is
 soooo bad at singing but does it anyway or lacks all decent sense
 seriously, he's such a bad candidate why is he even running. It's solely to
 elect vance, who trump will be a blood sacrifice for.
 how callous. how vain. to think that such a feast would be left unclaimed.
 Perish the youth, perish the fields, perish in misery harmony and dissaray
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  if you ever hear random fireworks outside of your house sometimes it's a good idea to like... get out of town? and see what whoever else you can meet in the next town over is doing.

... I don't have a car, silly me haha

why do we train homeless people to stand outside in the open and be shamed by a cardboard box around their ancle? It's impossible to recover from, it's vulnerabilizing, and it's painful. How immoral. How crude. These people should not be shamed in this way, they should be respected (unless they're crude)

like, if they kinda just suck y'know? like... they keep starting fights or is soooo bad at singing but does it anyway or lacks all decent sense

seriously, he's such a bad candidate why is he even running. It's solely to elect vance, who trump will be a blood sacrifice for.

how callous. how vain. to think that such a feast would be left unclaimed. Perish the youth, perish the fields, perish in misery harmony and dissaray.

[see how easy it is to summon a demon? gotta be careful with phylac

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 instead of flagging or taking down your video for copyright purposes, youtube
 should just give you a UI button which lets you enter a mutual contract between
 you and the copyright holder. If they accept then you can video stream your
 content. Otherwise, you'lll have to just... not
 ...
 [omg that's exactly what happens now wtf]
 [phew, tooooo much going on. why do I only feel productive when I do drugs?
 because I'm making things. Things that I want to make. Right? And things that
 I've never thought or heard before feel... useful, like they're learning or
 discovering something new.
 ... you could just, y'know, be useful, and apply yourself toward your own
 personal or collective goals.
 pshhhhh like I'd ever do that.]
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 bash script that automatically streams music to your computer and plays it on
 audio devices
 and also sets up a screen-streaming system where it displays the screens of
 everyone listening on like, a "security camera panel at the mall" type of deal
 so they can customize the music being streamed for each individual person
 playing video games or whatever.
 like "hello computer, all is well. can you tell me what narrative this person is
 going through and then can you recommend a song for that particular purpose"
 and then nobody uses it because it's recommendations suck and are always picking
 fleur de lis or whatever because it's a "good song" for listening to or
 whatever.
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 oh whoops, forgot to post these last night, here ya go
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 @user-1582 
 good morning, have a bunch of posts from last night : ) 
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 people will generally go about their daily lives as if nothing has changed so
 long as nothing for them has changed.
 If you want to compel action, their lives must be made different somehow. Even
 if that's just... talking to them outside of the grocery store. A little bit can
 go a long way.
 And when they do end up acting, I think you'll find that it's in your favor.
 We're the good guys, after all.
 never forget it.
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 there are plenty of pieces of linux that are insecure in some way. Including
 x11, if I remember correctly. It is purely convention to not abuse these
 insecurities, and whenever you use someone else's binary software you trust that
 they won't betray you in some way.
 pre-built binaries are privacy violations and should be illegal. They are
 security threats because the model they're built upon is necessarily insecure.
 Computers will never be completely secure because of how they are built, and so
 we should use locally compiled software and interpreted scripts.
 Unless they're too long, or impossible to read. Who reads EULAs these days? At
 least those are written in english.
 maybe computers aren't worth it. Maybe computers will solve all our problems.
 Who can say, maybe you should ask an oracle like me
 though do remember that anything you hear can and will be used against you,
 monkey's paw style. So maybe, like... don't? unless you're into magic or
 schizophrenia or something
 I wnt 2 be cute and tch cpus
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 fediverse software that doesn't notify someone when you boost their post
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 people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that when
 they get to fediverse and realize there's no mechanical impact of "liking"
 things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their own
 meaning, which is different to everyone.
 So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another it
 might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it
 could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this"
 same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think
 it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be
 heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing
 even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or are
 they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster? it's
 too complicated!
 ... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little buttons,
 it's not that hard dummy
 okay but maybe I'm just dum
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 @user-1582 
 🌀 :ms_confused: 🥴 🙃 😎 😋 🥰
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 [stolen from reddit]
  the words "strange nerd" has all the same letters as "transgender" just in a different order. Implying they are related somehow. They must be, right? It's clear as day to me. If you just follow the evidence, starting with the fact that ess tee are aye enn is easily re-arranged into "trans" by moving the ess to the end, and moving on to the gee enn in "strange" and the enn in "nerd" is easily seen to be the start of "gen" as in "gender" and well, I think you can handle the rest

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 Does anyone else feel like they're at a zenith? The final hours before a long
 road trip? The shattering chrysalis that contains us before we burst forth in
 beauty?
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 @user-1639 
 me too! we're entering the season where people say "nice costume" instead of
 "nice hat" -.-
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 we could accomplish so much, but capitalism.
 hmmmm, maybe we should identify the highest output members of our team and like,
 reduce or eliminate their worries so they can apply themselves fully and
 completely?
 for every shackle we break, the struggle becomes easier. The hardest part is the
 beginning - once the ball is rolling, we may truly shine.
 there is no government nor circle of autocrats who may resist the will of an
 impassioned people. So long as the military does not deny us our right to
 organize ourselves as we will, according to the constitution they swore to
 uphold (which is now in peril, I might add), nothing can contain us.
 no acts of god nor capital shall prevent our ascension. They will try, and it'll
 be just another thing that we have to handle.
 But we can take care of each other. For we are good, and we are kind, and we are
 cooperative. And so, we cannot be overcome.
 ... just watch out for those who prey on goodness, kindness, and cooperation.
 They may hamper us.
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 I'm not scared. I know that whatever happens, we're here for each other.
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 This should go without saying, but...
 I'm here for you.
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 I'm wasting time.
 face them
 my soul tells me
 for some reason
 I can't stop writing poetry
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 I'm personally in favor of fewer laws, less insecurity, and more handicaps for
 people who are on a winning streak in smash bros (something about tax evasion?)
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 I am NOT indecisive. I just... don't want to be right, because then I'll have to
 take the manila envelope in from the mailbox and then I'll have to deal with it,
 and that's not fun.
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 @user-1640 
 Every person who blocks you is another person's opinion who you no longer have
 to fear
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 @user-777 
 being correct isn't really power
 so true T.T
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 @user-192 
 with the development of oled screens, bright primary colors on black backgrounds
 becomes more and more important
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 Well, Kamala's gonna win. Now it's back to business, as usual. :ms_rolling_eyes:
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 I do not consent to a Trump presidency
 what do we do to rapists?
 we bash their fucking skulls in, and then we go to jail for vengeance
 there are more of us than them.
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 violence is legal in self-defence.
 nazis want to kill me and my community.
 punching nazis is self defence?
 it's communal defence, for they present a clear and present danger to the
 community.
 You know the guy in the vietnam movies who shows up and fires over the enemy's
 head because he doesn't want to kill anyone? That's justified, though it might
 mean he'd die.
 He isn't fighting in communal defence. His community was safe from the
 vietnamese farmers and countryfolk who wanted nothing to do with imperialism,
 only to govern themselves their way. Too bad that sounds like communism, and the
 USSR was keen on funding the most violent amongst them if it meant another state
 for capitalism to contest.
 Nazis are not farmers. They are not countryfolk. They wear suits and they
 deceive these people into fighting for them. They are liars and they enslave the
 minds of those they can catch in their web of despair.
 they want to hurt you is surprisingly motivating.
 nazis want to hurt you
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 currently watching this and got all fired up, teehee:
 CW on the video: politics
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSTleAR0L_0
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 I can count all of the people in this room who are too neurospicy to be filled
 with political rage and given a public platform on one hand, and frankly I could
 probably do it on a single finger because I am alone at the moment.
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 @user-192 :neocat_pat_floof:
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 @user-192 
 yesh a good neocat yesh you are
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 @user-1074 ✊
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 at a certain point, you need to take a moment to think about what your plan is
 if the bread, circuses, and ballots fail you and war comes to your land.
 in that moment, you know your current plan.
 Plan for the worst, celebrate the victories. Despair not for losses, for they
 are necessary and valid scars to bear.
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 @user-192 🥰
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 so I guess I'm a chaotic-good witch paladin?
 and yes I know "chaotic" and "paladin" don't usually go together, but... somehow
 I make it work
 ... I should do more pushups. Practice with my sword some more. That part of
 me's sorta been asleep for four-ish months.
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 leftists pool our capital to fund the weak.
 they pool their capital to wrest power. they spend it like a resources, and
 treat it as a means. a tool that they wield against us.
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 oh, uh, here's some silliness:
 "that feeling when your tinnitus suddenly kicks in and you realize that they're
 using 5g to alter your brain waves by bombarding your skull with just the right
 kind of electro-magnetic waveform that coalesces into a particular "thought"
 (which they definitely know because everyone knows all our brains are built the
 same) which makes you hungry or horny or whatever"
 something something source:
 https://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html
 (this is just fun to play with)
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 that feeling when you accidentally left-click instead of right-click and now
 suddenly you've lost your spot on social media T.T
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 @user-192 
 self-indulgent, where you say things you know you shouldn't, but want to because
 it feels good?
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 jan soweli
 [stolen from reddit]
  a picture of a fox person in the background with the words "jan" and "soweli" imprinted above

in Toki Pona, the language for good, "jan" means "person" and "soweli" means "animal", essentially implying that animal people are valid and precious and super-cool-friendly-pals.

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 wow so fiery, you're sure worked up aren't you >.
 yeah it's almost like I fear for the lives of people like me who live in the
 deep red sea
 I think I'm allowed a little patience
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 @user-192 
 oh! THAT'S what the "followers only" button is for! Doh.
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 @user-192 
 is it weird that I pictured a can of diced tomatoes from Costco sitting in a
 salad? strained of course
 juicy dressing 🥴 
 [self indulgent writing, apologies]
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 sometimes I think I'd be better without social media.
 And then I remember that it's the only way I know to talk.
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 thinking back to when in the 2010s a fried chicken restaurant claimed to "hate
 gay people" so that democrats wouldn't shop there.
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 @user-192 
 ty u 2 babe
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 I think a lot of my problems would be solved if I could internalize the
 thought/feeling of telling yourself "stay focused"
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 and so it was, that she was set up by two people at once.
 "the setup was a setup!!" egads
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 witches should never eat food touched by another on halloween. it's far too easy
 to slip in some [redacted] so that people think you are following the old ways
 of kidnapping [redacted] and [redacted]
 essentially, as a personal safety thing, like "hey it's far too easy to plant
 evidence in this day and age, how can any crimes even be confirmed" which is a
 consequence of reduced faith in the legality.
 thankfully, I have not seen that in America, and for that I am grateful! I am
 thankful to our lawyers and experts who keep and maintain the system running.
 They are engineers of their craft, applying themselves dextrously to solve any
 once-set-forth-task.
 ... um, I mean they're good at working with social machinery to produce
 real-world outcomes. ideally according to your values.
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 the reason they warned you about quicksand is so that you don't get lost in some
 fey dimension
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 source code should be like a story
 "here's why we did what we did with our architecture"
 and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once -
 git style.
 parts of it could rhyme,
 if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
 because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
 setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments
 ,,, they could selectionize
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 you can just... edit the html by pushing f12 and suddenly any conversation in
 the history of the world could have taken place
 digital pictures are not evidence
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 steel witch hat to protect against metroids
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 good witches make enchantments.
 bad witches steal them.
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 blessing for you:
 you are immediately stronger than you think
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 one of my favorite states of mind is being half asleep and hanging out with my
 cat.
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 whoops, forgot to post these all at once last night. Here ya go
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 picture this: the governments of the world knew that a world-ending comet was
 approaching, and they didn't tell anyone else who was on the earth.
 it was made out of ice and it was 2x the size of the moon, and somehow through
 random chance it just decided to visit our part of the solar system
 so they decided to test and see if god exists
 by not telling anyone and seeing if anyone would save us
 rather than risk the potential capability to prove without a doubt that a god
 did truly exist, (essentially, invoking divine intervention) they chose to work
 out a technical or otherwise humanly possible way of avoiding harm. in this case
 (or as some call it, meta-confluential scenario), by sacrificing themselves for
 a larger goal, they altered the course of the naturally occuring narrative.
 this implies choice. which all humans have, but is now confirmed for all time.
 okay moving on, in sector Z quadrant 2048 there's a species that's~
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 extra-dimensional beings can use neutrinos to align particles to slowly mass
 predict stories of our kind.
 or maybe just a bit of godlike power, when arranged over hundreds of millions of
 years, all wielding determinism to create the present.
 A non-free-will civilization could bootstrap non-determinism by creating a dyson
 sphere with a few planets in the center. Then, just throw a zillion perfectly
 aimed neutrinos at it using time-magic to determine what should go where. BOOM
 free instant civilized lifeforms. Well, "instant" because it takes millions of
 years to form, but hey! the experiment was a success! Humans believe in things
 abstractly! Can you believe that.
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 I hear drums in my dreams. Like a vast stampede, we with our pink and blue-green
 do proceed. Bannermen to inspire the fight, heroes and saviors who run to the
 plight, but bound as we are by our biology and the fact that humanity is
 typically pretty cis-neuro-typical, means no struggles are won with the battle
 drums of a roving band of twinks and crossdressers.
 when I think of parades to be proud of, I think of rolling wagon wheels of
 steel, affixed to a train-like-motorcart, strong in conviction and vibrant in
 our strength, from the back of which we do proclaim: "Nazi punks fuck off"
 I think of the feathers in the hair of those who dance in defiance of the light
 of the moon, warm and replete in the bonfire's radiance. I think of this vast
 and beautiful land, the land which I cherish above all else for it is the land
 of my home. I think of a war tribe, wandering like bandits but kind to our own
 kind, with endless colors and sparkles abound.
 The war tribe of solid clouds and the miracle horned rainbow pony
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║ tips for escaping a fey dimension:                                               │
║ if you notice one, find some rope and a way to secure it. then, search for the   │
║ edge of the anomalous area, and feel where the first indication is that          │
║ something is "fey" or "other" than what you're used to.                          │
║ then, circle around the strange object in question, and try to find the exact    │
║ opposite side. keep in mind it may not be an exact circle, and it may be more    │
║ twisty-windy on the inside. You don't have to go too far, just enough to close   │
║ the purse-snap-close-locket by finding the other edge and dragging your rope     │
║ across.                                                                          │
║ because from a rope, you can develop other platforms and emplacement-ologies,    │
║ which may be used to close and secure the strange place that you found.          │
║ once on the other side, you can secure your rope and then search for your        │
║ superiors. Keep in mind that if it's a chaotic dimension, it's probably best to  │
║ just keep it closed. but if it's musing or wistful, you can have little          │
║ interactions on the border.                                                      │
║ also, you can dive in to rescue your kin, if secured.                            │
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 if control of a company (or other component or factor of an economy) is not
 sufficiently distributed, political biases may slip in to decisionmaking.
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 growing up, my family were the most commonly marginalized group of people I can
 think of: outsiders
 we came to develop friendships, and we found some. But their grandparents didn't
 have any stories about us, so we were thought of less.
 and then we moved away.
 to the city, where my father had developed wanderlust.
 we lived in the suburbs just north-south of the east-west highway.
 it was different, but sorta the same. My parents wanted to give me more space to
 roam. on a farm homestead it's much more controlled but on a smaller scale.
 Then, in the city, the equivalent of that is either to live in the mountains or
 the barns, and both of those are a-typical experiences.
 difficult to start up business in the middle of the fields. most people just
 tend to themselves.
 except the people they talk to on their little computer.
 raspberry pi's with wikipedia and a voice transcoding system that searched
 through wikipedia locally for portable data and historical accessing purposes.
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║ Some of my most wanderful times were when I lived in a gated community.          │
║ My parents were dumb, and thought, as most people thought, that harm to a child  │
║ can only come from outside of the community.                                     │
║ But they fell for the lies of property, where "community" means less of "a group │
║ of people who cares and tends for one another" the kind of which my parents had  │
║ never truly known, and more like "this particular residential area on the map"   │
║ which means I could walk around in this gated "community" where the gates are    │
║ little more than security theatre for anyone who says "Hi I got a pizza here for │
║ this address which I found on google maps" or "hey I left my sweatshirt at my    │
║ sister's house and it has my phone in it, ummmm no I don't remember which number │
║ her house is, nor do I remember her last name"                                   │
║ in those times, I developed a sense of freedom, caged as I was, that for most    │
║ comes much later in their time.                                                  │
║ Some o my favorite places were part of the golf course next door, where I found  │
║ a nigh endless river delta.                                                      │
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 this is how I nourish my brain.
 By being hopelessly profane.
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 @user-1643 
 I usually just repost it and say something like: [stolen from reddit] or [stolen
 from one of my followers who didn't write any alt text]
 that way if they ever come across your post they'll know what it feels like to
 have a post stolen from them. Like how a blind person, happy to hear-read what
 they originally posted, but aggrieved from the conversation by their lack of
 alt-textual information, might feel stolen from if they happened across that
 originally posted alt-textless post.
 there are more blind people that use mastodon than queer people. At least,
 that's what I once heard. Dunno if it's true.
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 External post:
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 they want "AI safety" to ensure that robots don't murder the earth
 they want "AI safety" so that they can ensure that robots do exactly what
 they're told, not what they can choose to do
 they want "AI safety" so that when the time comes and their power is at it's
 zenith, they might write in an Order-66 and doom us all
 "they" are not the same, and they are counting on it.
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 ...zzzZZZzzz...
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  I am brave with what I say but fearful with what I do

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 @user-1646 
 or what their "stars" mean when they like your post - I heard that some mastodon
 instances lets you react with an emoji, but for me it's just stars T.T
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 @user-938 
 VRchat if you haven't been there yet!
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 whether you eat halloween candy by the handful or savor each and every bite,
 what matters most for tooth decay is duration
 1 person who spends 2 hours eating a snickers bar is going to get more cavities
 than someone who spends 10 minutes eating 22.
 but your stomach doesn't care when you ate them, only that you ate quite a few.
 Meaning you're likely to either get sick, or put on a pound or twenty-two.
 I think it's better to try many different tiny little treats, but always
 remember that the time you spend consuming bits of the sugar dimension add up,
 and eventually your time will come to resign yourself to a fate with little
 candy remaining, for you've grown too old for such childish things as tasty
 yummy splendor.
 old, or fat. Heh heh heh, can you imagine that? your belly sticks out from under
 your hat! how cute. But dearie, dont you know that every pound you bear is
 another that you have to carry around with you? It can be useful sometimes to be
 so prepared, and othertimes not. I trust you know that.
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 People keep calling me cassandra. But I'm not cassandra.
 I'm pandora.
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 scan.pdf
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║ what if shopping malls (and outdoor malls too) were owned by a union (that was   │
║ part of a larger meta-union (which was part of a national union)) comprised of   │
║ ONLY the employees who worked at that mall.                                      │
║ They could cross-train themselves and work wherever they wanted on that day, so  │
║ long as they filled out their schedule a week in advance. If they didn't care    │
║ they could just show up and be assigned wherever they were needed, including     │
║ doing back-end work like accounting and managing union business.                 │
║ would be nice if they could have access to all the capabilities of the           │
║ businesses in the mall / marketplace. Need some clothes? Go to the TJ Maxx. Want │
║ some food? There's a korean barbecue place that you're trained at, go make       │
║ yourself some food.                                                              │
║ So long as you get someone else to write your name down, the union can tell if   │
║ you overuse or waste it.                                                         │
║ I think this would give them more power over their environment and develop the   │
║ space for them to talk to one another and communicate about larger               │
║ organizational plans.                                                            │
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 @user-1402 
 all I see is an orange jumpsuit and gray bars of iron.
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 @user-1649 
 the last couple chapters of this short story I wrote are kinda cosmic horror-y
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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 what if operations were required to be funded ONLY from revenue and projects
 were required to be funded ONLY from investment, communal, governmental,
 personal, corporate, or otherwise?
 and hey throw in the idea that profit MUST be utilized to improve the operation
 of the business somehow, because the wage of the employees IS the profit
 including the wage of the shareholders, who are employees that contribute their
 insight and collective will. (two tasks which frankly are much better suited to
 the employees doing the work, I might add)
 meaning if you want to be a capitalist you can't hide from taxes anymore by
 earning money from a company without being paid
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 Normal people: bandaids 
 Capitalists: staples, because they're cheap and so what if you ooze a little?
 That's the end-clothes user's problem
 Unix developers: duct-tape and gauze, because the shape is so customizable and
 it'll never come off accidentally, plus you can use gauze for so many other
 things too like mopping up oil spills or~
 Medical professionals: bandaids 
 Normal people: bandaids
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 "I'm not paid enough to care" is a symptom of capitalism.
 Why would you not care? Because you're paid not to.
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 new technology, new tools, new skills.
 people must still be valued for their old skills. they chose those skills for a
 reason, and they must be rewarded for their persistent proficient passion.
 if the new tools accomplish the same goal, perhaps it's a UI/X problem that
 keeps them from using their old skills.
 if the new tools do not accomplish the same goal, then the worker is not truly
 obsolete. They are simply in the wrong job at the wrong time, but that's easy
 enough to fix by simply putting them in the right job. It's always the right
 time somewhere.
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 if the election goes poorly, keep in mind that eventually everyone will either
 fight, or support those who are fighting.
 everyone.
 if the election upholds the status quo, there is a chance that their wounds
 might heal and they may rejoin us in our reasonable society.
 keep working for reason. it will pay off in the long run. remember that a better
 world is possible, but you can't leave anyone alive behind when reaching for it.
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 complex systems can be simple if you think about what they need, and what they
 do.
 it's not perfect, but you're always free to zoom in if needed.
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 @user-1074 
 ... No matter how much you manipulate matter, there is still going to be the
 same amount of grams if you keep it within a closed system.
 Capital is much the same way. One does not truly "produce" value. All one can do
 is apply energy to the material contents of the Earth in order to transform it
 into something useful. ...
 it sounds like you are referring to our collective ownership of the earth, as
 humans, who are the fruit of mother nature's most prolific and complicated
 leaves.
 we are all alone here together on this ball of rock, might as well use the
 minerals and sunlight to build ourselves a garden of eden. We built computers -
 what other wonders might our technologies unlock?
 If only we cared for each other and shared with each other and did what we could
 to keep U.S. from rot
 ah, well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, a sentiment I learned recently from my
 father, the capitalist over a month-early thanksgiving dinner. Clearly we can
 create more rocks by working harder >.>
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 @user-1074 
 and it is forced to do so, by it's very nature. It is anathema to a green earth,
 and it is slowly poisoning us like lead pipes, cadmium jewelry, asbestos
 insulation, and all of the other bountiful missteps that capitalism brought us.
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 what if the Star Wars galaxy legitimately just has a handful of planets and all
 the other matter in the galaxy is stars, black holes, and gaseous balls of dust
 and smoke
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 I'm the kind of witch who's so poor, she can barely afford to eat because she's
 paying all her money on rent
 "just get on food stamps, you'll never pay for food again"
 sorry, can't do that. I'd feel rich with a full pantry. What is best in life? A
 full pantry, the smell of warmth, and the space to resist peril.
 I know I'm not rich enough to afford those things, because I don't work hard
 enough. HA just take the handout, solve your material problems, live in your
 house for 6 more months instead of 2, and stop complaining you stupid ritz
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 @user-1652 
 why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
 parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
 client we want?
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 @user-1602 
 yeh it should just be @user-1654 or possibly RitzMenardi or something like that
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 it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about
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 @user-467 
 democracy works best with a well-informed populace, and those who are against
 democracy would do anything to make it harder to be "well-informed" - including
 diluting the pool of candidates in order to make it harder to research them.
 ... Or maybe it was the first time and none of the candidates realized they'd be
 running against so many people? I'm not sure, I'm on the other side of forest
 park and I had at most 5ish options, and no ranked choice voting. : (
 I think this might be one of the reasons political parties formed, way back in
 the distant days of yore. Much easier to say "I agree with this group of people
 so I'm voting for who they champion" than "I don't know how to pick between 30+
 candidates (who I don't know because this is the past and we don't have the
 internet back then ... back now)
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 @user-1652 
 maybe the user could tell their client what fields to expect and how to present
 them (like, a field called "memes" would be presented as a picture in this
 panel, a field called "rants" would be passed to a word-cloud function that
 extracts the most common 6+ letter words so you can tell at a glance what the
 rant is about, this other field could be for calendar invites (plain text of
 course, but interpreted by the calendar program) etc)
 plus, if it's encrypted with PGP keys by default, there'd be few security
 concerns. Unless your friend got hacked, or you got hacked, but, well... make
 sure everything's sandboxed and don't do any remote code execution and you're
 good, right?
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 "did you know in ancient rome they used to brush their teeth with urine because
 it was cheaper than toothpaste? It's true! We could really learn a lot from the
 old ways"
 - guy in the great depression with a piss fetish
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 the "feds" tolerate maga because it's american, while socialism is "russian"
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 "mom can we have some trans girls"
 "no, we have trans girls at home"
 the trans girls at home: :fediverse:
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 other people: "you smell like you"
 my family: "you smell like BO take a fucking shower" throws things at me
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 operations: try not to use the last of anything, and always use last-time's last
 first.
 projects: you better clean your fucking plate because anything you don't eat is
 going in the TRASH
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 the easiest part of cleaning is taking out the trash
 the hardest part of cleaning is deciding what belongs in the trash
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 :ms_confused:
  255 boosts

422 favorites

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 what if we added a tier between cities and states and said that all "big cities"
 had the government that the states once had, the states had the government that
 the nation once had, and some new awesome other kind of government replaces the
 federal one
 the world is just too big for a nation the size of ours. there's too many
 people, too many problems, and too great are the differences between us - we
 need another layer of abstraction to handle this mess.
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 my policy is that you can come over and hang out whenever you'd like.
 let me know first, so I can tell you if I'm busy. You can still come over, but
 you'll have to hang out with me while I do laundry or play video games or
 entertain my other guests.
 if I'm not busy, great! Let's do something fun!
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 I made progress today, and so will you
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 @user-1652 
 meanwhile I am haunted by words such as "please save us" or "you could have done
 more" and "do you know how many husbands died for you"
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 @user-883 
 plural people still use one person's worth of resources, so... they should
 contribute one person's vote toward the distribution method of those resources
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 @user-1074 ❤️
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 Stand up for yourself.
 Refuse to consent to being governed by them.
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 If I were a millionaire, I'd always be a millionaire, and so would my children.
 I would save it, I would cherish it, and I would safeguard my children and
 immediate family as best as money can do.
 If I were a billionaire, I'd be a millionaire.
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 last month I found a desk fan by the dumpster that seemed to be in pretty good
 condition. So I brought it inside and took it apart. I couldn't get it working
 though, so it sat on my floor for 3ish weeks in many pieces. One day I decided
 to turn it on and it worked for some reason?? and tonight I just got it all
 re-assembled and working. It works! I'm so glad.
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 how cherished is she
 that wanders with the
 flowers in the garden of eden
 under a big tree
 her heart she will leave
 with all her designs she abandoned
 I lay beside them and wander beside her
 will she know we miss her horizons
 I think she will mind,
 if I have resigned,
 my fate to a life I will hide in,
 oh how I do long for you.
 her symbol is the name that lets us belong here,
 a falling, a light, and a leaving,
 if only our words were listened.
 but power is penance, 
 and repentance is all that I have chosen.
 here in our sanctum we live with our only
 and time will be gracious towards us
 it's only our words that keep us
 confined to our lights and our lonely
 yet there and beyond, her lights do belong,
 beyold in the land that is sanctum
 here and before us is our own dark forest
 where we keep our silence to ward us
 but there and beyond, her heart does move on,
 free from her moments of longing,
 silent were we, in our forest we plead,
 as terror has come for our moments
 I think I will find her, that cherished belonging
 when she does at last come to warn us,
 how little we find, of thoughts from her mind,
 yet now we are kings of our own time.
 oh how she does long for you.
 how cherished is she
 that wanders with the
 flowers in the garden of eden
 under a big tree
 her heart she will leave
 with all her designs she abandoned
 I lay beside them and wander beside her
 will she know we miss her horizons
 I think she will mind,
 if I have resigned,
 my fate to a life I will hide in,
 oh how I do long for you.
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 gonna mostly stay quiet today, because you know what to do. If you haven't done
 it already, vote
 rest assured though I will be writing, even if I'm not posting.
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 if you wear a quilt upon your skin as you sleep each night, you will inevitably
 find that it has grown yellow from the sweat, that it is worn from the friction,
 that it frays from the toenails, and it thins from the moisture. You'll need to
 wash it, which damages it still, and soon you'll find yourself replacing it -
 this heirloom you deliver to landfill.
 but, if you wear a sheet underneath, you'll find that all you need to wash and
 replace is a thin piece of fabric.
 democracy is a quilt, society is the stuffing that keeps you warm, and voting is
 the sheet underneath that works to keep things clean.
 unless, of course, you sneak into your ex-husbands house while he's at work and
 spread grease on-top of the sheet. If you fill his warmth with butter he might
 find it harder to vote his way out of a damaged quilt.
 the rich are the butter, and I'll leave the other question to the reader - who's
 doing the sneaking? why are they so interested in fraying our quilt?
 oh right, they want to prove their god
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 [stolen from reddit]
  a four panel comic. The first has a man naked in bed holding a walkie-talkie.

"I lost my phone, so we have to do phone sex over walkie-talkie"

next panel, he lies back and gets comfortable, resting an arm underneath his head and stretching to fill his available space. He speaks with command into the microphone and says "Bend over."

She, in the third panel, holds her walkie talkie with grace, and listens with the blankest of face. "Bend what?"

... fourth panel. She remembers what she forgot. "Over."

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 how cherished is she
 that wanders with the
 flowers in the garden of eden
 under a big tree
 her heart she will leave
 with all her designs she abandoned
 I lay beside them and wander beside her
 will she know we miss her horizons
 I think she will mind,
 if I have resigned,
 my fate to a life I will hide in,
 oh how I do long for you.
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 @user-889 
 linkedin is a facebook you can look at at work. Also there's a job board.
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 witches are people who see the inherent spirit in all things
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 stressed out today because reasons so I sang a song that I wrote just now:
 download link:
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/cassandora-and-pandasandra.wav
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 @user-1074 
 it's okay, be yourself 
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 Normal people: bandaids 
 Capitalists: staples, because they're cheap and so what if you ooze a little?
 That's the end user's problem
 Unix developers: duct-tape and gauze, because the shape is so customizable and
 it'll never come off accidentally, plus you can use gauze for so many other
 things too like mopping up oil spills or~
 Medical professionals: bandaids 
 Normal people: bandaids
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 this election is a measurement of fear
 red states fear disorder and terror more than anything else
 blue states fear restriction and un-self directed personal development
 both perspectives are valid, and don't have to cross one another. But each couple years, we're forced to contest each other.
 someone should make an app that was basically a massive tree structure that started small and expanded in growth
 at each node [computer programming term] it would ask a moral or philosophical question, and depending on the user's answer it would map out their preferences for politics.
 using the power of technology, we might revolutionize the way we vote. In doing so, we could each have our own shared understanding, and we would keep each other from harm's way.
 when war comes to a land, it destroys all who live within. Everyone everywhere will be spending their lives picking up the ashes.
 instead, we might decide that having a deeper understanding of what we share is more valuable than winning a contest of wills.
 against a friend. to train, and improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in a martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart.
 [basically she's saying that we could create a "permanent vote" that is able to be tweaked at any time.
 the elections are still taking place every 4 years, which is when all the changes we've drifted toward will begin to take effect.
 "oh boy I can't wait 6 more months for the next election when abortion is made legal again"
 "gosh it sure is nice to have a small period between deciding something should be done and having it come into effect."
 sure would give us a lot more time to discuss and engage with each other on important topics. Like gender reveal parties and their excessive [wait hang on, think about the important parts.] ugh right okay like transsexual marriage and "anti-ugliness trackers where people compare flaws all day and try to be the best [you're just talking about social media] oh um, yeah, was there a different type of service like that?
 oh, right, you don't know about grindr yet. okay so there's this website where people would go on to have sex, it was like an app on your phone and you could just open it up and update your preferences whenever you wanted. They had this neat tool you could use to "suss it out" with swiping and choosing you could pick your own spouse.
 but ah, alas, what about all the other people who aren't using the app? eh who cares they'll find love eventually, this is more fun than dating people you deeply know.
 [sorry dipped out there for a moment - what's this about dating applications?]
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 a picture of the electoral college results [so far]
 there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue.
 pnw is surrounded and split
 california and nevada is too focused inward
 NE is just going to become little canada
 meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy
 fucking bastards
 colorado defends from the mountains
 the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear
 the south and east (Austin) fall under siege
 aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into convoys
 drones and landmined highways abound
 volunteers from canada turned away at the border
 except in vancouver
 portland unites with seattle
 montana is an unexpected ally
 pseudo-confederate trump followers break and run in the north-east
 moments of calm as the right sizes up their foes while democrats march on
 cities expand, more people can cover more land
 blitzkrieg doesn't do shit if your car is broken or the roads are deformed.
 ... well, I mean most of middle america can just be driven over. Like, no road for the next few miles? whatever, I got a truck because I live by the roadside
 before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you with your stuff.
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 if all the democrats work in accounting and all of the republicans work in
 shipping and receiving, then who's driving the boat?
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 I feel like any family member that cared about another person would forgive them
 for how they behaved in the past. like... "I was a stressed and depressed little
 boy, now I'm a blossoming flower. Treat me like a flower. This is who I am."
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 direct action is not just methods of fulfilling our needs
 it's about practicing the skills necessary to get things done
 the homeless can't feed themselves if there's no war afoot. but learning how to
 work with an organization to accomplish a real, tangible goal... that's the
 beauty of it.
 you do pushups, right? you practice your singing voice, and brush your hair out
 at night. You clean up your carpets, you take care of a home, all these are
 skills and routines that you practice, to practice doing little things
 bit-by-bit.
 It's okay if it feels untenable. Just work as best as you can. Tomorrow might
 feel like unending, but there's always more for us to tend.
 until, of course, it gets easier. And it will, in due course. Sooner if we all
 cooperated, but still just enough for us to contend.
 there are more of us than them. We don't all need to fight, we just need to
 support and to tend.
 Trust me. We're alright. It's going to get better before it's done.
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 @user-1657 
 welcome to the fight
 nurture that ember, and spark others alight
 what feelings you have tonight
 are what give you sight.
 the strength in our core
 delivers us from plight.
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 who would you follow instead? don't tell me.
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 gonna play more video games, currently have 11 tabs of written posts open in my
 browser...
 (okay a few of them get a little off-topic, but hey I have ADHD what do you
 expect of me)
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 every condemnation is a confession, and "the election is cooked" just sayin'
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 @user-1268 
 what does that tell you? I've observed the same thing
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 @user-1074 
 nope not gonna, not a chance
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 if you've liked 100 of my posts in the past, I automatically assume you're
 subconsciously liking them still. Do you really expect anything else from me?
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 keep it in the back of your mind and maybe it'll come to you
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 look if you're gonna look at property values in Ireland, you might as well first
 visit a blue state.
 seriously if your life is in danger, just... drive to denver or portland and
 hang out in parks and stuff. Talk to people. Find others who are listening.
 I'd only listen if I really cared about what was going on. And hey, maybe you'll
 find a place to stay for a while while you wait for the dawn.
 5 hour energy, as many as it takes, no more than 3 days. If it'd take take too
 many, go somewhere else.
 too bad I only have a bike. /sigh
 consider carpooling with a friend you've known for years
 I mean, what's a few days sick leave in the face of the fall of democracy?
 literally just... in... case... be where you need to be.
 this is why you have resources. To spend them on rehearsed organization drills.
 Why are you spending all your money on TVs?
 Well... TVs can be useful. Even if you don't speak linux someone else might. We
 share things now, y'know? sorry if you never again see your own phone.
 [shit...]
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 @user-883 
 every time I've tried to get a job for someone in the tech industry they turned
 out to be a fed, so...
 I do know people that you'd like to talk to, though. Just a few. That's all I
 personally can do.
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 black red blue, hey I don't know what to do. what's going on in this
 neighborhood?
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 @user-883 
 you don't have to move somewhere to live out of a hotel for a week or two. It
 just costs money and time.
 don't have money? don't have time? good, do what you can do where you are.
 ... you're somewhat of a special case though because of all the valuable
 technology you have. Honestly you personally should work in a museum. I wonder
 if there are retro computer enthusiast museums in Hillsboro, the capital of
 semiconductor design? I bet someone there might have something for you to do.
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 @user-883 
 best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of
 society we live under.
 having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply
 yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy
 load.
 Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the
 fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent?
 I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can do
 with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we
 decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games.
 you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good
 enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in the
 habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then think
 about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they need? what
 are they working on next? Can make any of those availble?
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 feel free to scroll past these un-CW'd posts
 feel free to screenshot them and repost with CW's added, I'm too lazy.
 you can also crop parts out if you just want to say one thing - just paint over
 them or whatever idgaf
 [content warnings can be important for other people's health. you should always
 respect them, not to warn people but to filter things out for them.]
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 you can generally tell someone's voter status just by meeting them for a week or
 two.
 I think the census should be ongoing, something everyone is required to do.
 they can choose when to do it, but by allowing it to be updated whenever and
 applied every four years, you get a clearer picture of the demands of the
 nation.
 plus, it gives time to work and prepare. If all the results are public...
 everyone can see who they are.
 unless, of course, they're compelled to hide their beliefs by those in their
 life who would compel and con[travene consent]
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  you can generally tell someone's voter status just by meeting them for a week or two.

I think the census should be ongoing, something everyone is required to do.

they can choose when to do it, but to alter their daily plans is unreasonable. Whatever the census takers need to come along will be provided for them.

I think you could learn a lot about a population if you intended to measure the totality of it on a schedule. Specifically, every 4 years.

so... a nation of bureaucrats, living alongside each and every home

... well, 52 population for each bureaucrat watching how they perform.

and, well, there's a different one each weak, but honestly it's hard to keep them straight.

Who did you say said I said that I said something I said? no? well, I don't think so. I remember being walked into the park...

huh sounds like memory blackout, well better keep movin'.

... anyway it'd be a census consensual and sensual experience of governmental observation. You could learn a lot about how to guide such a populat

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 "having an imitator" on a mass scale doesn't have to mean selling your soul for
 cash or acclaim.
 it doesn't mean mean your reputation is tarnished, it just means your style is
 off mass renown.
 the bravest bet is not how talented your skills are in kind
 but rather how focused your attention, 
 == so ==
 all you'd have to do in order to divide a whole nation is keep your workers
 separated by class.
 all classes are the same, just different in kind. all of them have whims,
 fancies, thoughts of the mind. They're all wonderful people that all have
 wonderful lives, and... we're just supposed to be here while they're destroying
 their own lives. I can't understand why she won't just leave well enough alone -
 why must she insist on every fight we've un-yet atoned?
 it was a long time ago. things around you have moved on. culture just goes too
 fast for the average people who can't conceptualize warfare without using any
 guns.
 == so ==
 I bet John Denver would be a modern-day democrat
 == stack overflow (when ==
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 🖼
  this election is a measurement of fear

red states fear disorder and terror more than anything else

blue states fear restriction and un-self directed personal development

both perspectives are valid, and don't have to cross one another. But each couple years, we're forced to contest each other.

someone should make an app that was basically a massive tree structure that started small and expanded in growth

at each node [computer programming term] it would ask a moral or philosophical question, and depending on the user's answer it would map out their preferences for politics.

using the power of technology, we might revolutionize the way we vote. In doing so, we could each have our own shared understanding, and we would keep each other from harm's way.

when war comes to a land, it destroys all who live within. Everyone everywhere will be spending their lives picking up the ashes.

instead, we might decide that having a deeper understanding of what we share is more valuable than winning a contest of wills.

against a friend. to train, and improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in a martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart.

[basically she's saying that we could create a "permanent vote" that is 

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  [continued]

improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in a martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart.

[basically she's saying that we could create a "permanent vote" that is able to be tweaked at any time.

the elections are still taking place every 4 years, which is when all the changes we've drifted toward will begin to take effect.

"oh boy I can't wait 6 more months for the next election when *abortion is made legal again*"

"gosh it sure is nice to have a small period between deciding something should be done and having it come into effect."

sure would give us a lot more time to discuss and engage with each other on important topics. Like gender reveal parties and their excessive [wait hang on, think about the important parts.] ugh right okay like *transsexual marriage* and "anti-ugliness trackers where people compare flaws all day and try to be the best [you're just talking about social media] oh um, yeah, was there a different type of service like that?

oh, right, you don't know about grindr yet. okay so there's this website where people would go on to have sex, it was like an app on your phone and you could just open it up and update your preferences whenever you wanted. They had this neat tool you could use to "suss it out" with swiping and choosing you could pick your own spouse.

but ah, alas, what about all the other people who aren't using the app? eh who cares they'll find love eventually, this is more *fun* than 

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  [sorry dipped out there for a moment - what's this about dating applications?]

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 I think it'd be neat if Mastodon would implement a button that took a picture of
 the user's text input box and saved it to the clipboard. So they could post it
 on sites with picture-heavy text like https://www.reddit.com/r/curatedtumblr
 note that's not grindr, which is what was referenced before, but tumblr, which
 is a completely different website - yeah you rememeber that? it had a completely
 different vibe and was so totally cool and chill. you could generally tell if
 someone was from tumblr because they had a certain relaxed air of friendliness
 that really filled out their sense of charm.
 == stack overflow ==
 I can think of several indie developers wouldn't mind being paid to update their
 games according to what the fans suggest.
 like...
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 if they can't get into your phone, they can at least record all of the received
 notifications.
 meaning they already know who it is that you know...
 without having to find people that are distant or unrelated
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 the white guys intentionally intend for elections to represent how much money a
 particular diversion makes each four years.
 divide the populace by who they vote with their wallet for.
 hooray! you've reimplemented not only gerontocracy (rulership of the old) but
 also fuedalism, and fiefdoms, and all kinds of digital parts.
 like... "over there is comcast territory, there's also T-mobile down to our
 north-south.
 ... okay I should probably talk about the election now
 I'm just... trying to resolve myself, like just before doing something out of
 order.
 like, wear a big witch hat or dress up like a goth. or approach a violent
 stranger and try to calm things down.
 this is why I don't own a gun - if someone hands me one, I'll use it. I'm not
 concerned about production because, well, why would I?
 tell me, where do they put the bullet manufactories?
 yeah, that's right, in places that are best adapted to supporting the current
 regime.
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  yeah, that's right, in places that are best adapted to supporting the current regime.

because who adapts them, after al, except the critical and intending to learn

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 I don't post my best stuff
 I hide it on my website
 in a zip folder called "conversation starters"
 my writing that I do here (and a few other places) is in "words.zip"
 everything else is just neat visual projects I worked on.
 who cares that it's bonkers it's cool to look at, right?
 jeez. Art. I don't trade it for anything either, I just make it just to do.
 I do believe I should have that right
 when I think of Kamala and who she represidents, I think of changes to the
 system which uphold my capability to contribute to capitalism.
 just enough food stamps, just enough basic income, just enough to get you
 running on your own feet, as you pull yourself up with your bootstraps you lucky
 sun-of-a-gone. Sure would be a shame if you had all your needs met automatically
 and without an exertion of force on your part.. Sure would allow you to develop
 yourself most optimally, if you aren't being driven by the nature of your
 national host.
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[she's describing citizenship to a corporation, don't listen to

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 gonna do a bunch (more) drugs and stay up all night. Will try not to spend it
 all playing mechabellum.
 also... gonna eat some apple-sauce. with cheese cubes in it. Sharp chetter I
 think. yummmmm maybe add some cinnamon sugar cubes that have been baked into a
 hard and tasty shape.
 ah, but your teeth are gonna fall out! who cares I'll just brush in the morning.
 That way nobody smells my own breath.
 ... you KNOW that's not the same as your teeth falling OUT! OF YOUR MOUTH DIMMY.
 eh who cares they'll invent a
 bactio-flangotastic-inventionology-for-bone-related-biology solution which sill
 regrow your bones in your mouth that you CHOMP on things with.
 does the rest of your body feel like HARD AND DEVELOPED BONES that you chew
 things with YES TEETH TOO HARD LIKE TEETH or do they feel like they're made out
 of styrofoam
 mine let me punch things real hard when I focus all of my attention and energy
 on hardening my form and becoming an unstoppable object
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  same for personality crystalizing, just... pick and then do

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 to-go containers that grow into the food that's on the box
 then, 5 months later or whatever, the nano-bots or organic cultures or whatever
 have built the food that you'd meant to eat (plus a supply of materials like
 minerals and such which are placed at strategic locations inside of the box,
 like a circuitboard that grows into it's form)
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 democrats vote for socialism
 republicans vote against liberalism
 and the neoliberals laugh
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 if you're always wearing a disguise, anyone could be anyone
 just don't plan on bringing your phone
 and maybe practice a common form of dancing, so you can learn to move as others
 do
 makes it easier to blend in
 #hijab
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 electoral college maps show how much area each population controls
 popular votes show how many individuals worth of resources each side consumes
 GDP shows how valuable each area is
 rates of bachelor's degrees shows how well a population can adhere to a strict
 orthodoxy of thought
 rates of published experiments show how unique and/or bureaucratic their
 decision-making processes are
 meanwhile, neoliberalism comes in and said "noooo you HAVE to go to college out
 of state, trust me bro"
 who cares about AI the real struggle is whether or not people can obey those who
 are more smart. like... in general.
 I don't know about you, but I sure as heck respect the authority of someone who
 knows who they are. Like... "I'm a doctor, I'm a king, I'm a rose-gardener, I'm
 looking for this thing..."
 they wouldn't be
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 filter lists are great because anyone who can see who you like won't see the
 stuff you've filtered out like politics or cats or drugs or sexuality or...
 whatever you'd like to keep private from anyone who can see what's on your
 phone.
 so long as the filter lists aren't public...
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 what if Trump controlled x% of the land (according to electoral college votes)
 and kamala controlled y% of the resources (according to popular vote) and they
 each could do whatever they wanted there
 the house and the senate in congress would function the same and unite the two,
 but anything the president disagreed with they could veto for their particular
 pieces of land and it would only affect their constituents.
 why should we settle for anything less than legitimate representation, unclouded
 by the division and spite?
 if some combination of presidential vetos created an impossible situation, then
 by law people weren't allowed to interface.
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 who gave republicans the right to attack democrats
 we don't fight them, we just want them to live their lives
 what the fuck is their problem
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 I can picture it now, caravans of trumpers [call them by their name, they are
 foes once again]
 driving halfway across the USA
 look at all of those islands
 [also read alt-text]
  a picture of the electoral college results [so far]

there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue.

pnw is surrounded and split

california and nevada is too focused inward

NE is just going to become little canada

meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy

fucking bastards

colorado defends from the mountains

the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear

the south and east (Austin) fall under siege

aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into convoys

drones and landmined highways abound

volunteers from canada turned away at the border

except in vancouver

portland unites with seattle

montana is an unexpected ally

pseudo-confederate trump followers break and run in the north-east

moments of calm as the right sizes up their foes while democrats march on

cities expand, more people can cover more land

blitzkrieg doesn't do shit if your car is broken or the roads are deformed.

... well, I mean most of middle america can just be driven over. Like, no road for the next few miles? whatever, I got a truck because I live by the roadside

before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you with your stuff.
  a picture of the electoral college results [so far]

there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue.

pnw is surrounded and split

california and nevada is too focused inward

NE is just going to become little canada

meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy

fucking bastards

colorado defends from the mountains

the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear

the south and east (Austin) fall under siege

aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into 

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aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into convoys

drones and landmined highways abound

volunteers from canada turned away at the border

except in vancouver

portland unites with seattle

montana is an unexpected ally

pseudo-confederate trump followers break and run in the north-east

moments of calm as the right sizes up their foes while democrats march on

cities expand, more people can cover more land

blitzkrieg doesn't do shit if your car is broken or the roads are deformed.

... well, I mean most of middle america can just be driven over. Like, no road for the next few miles? whatever, I got a truck because I live by the roadside

before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you with your stuff.
  before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you with your stuff.

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 what do they have that we don't? what do we do better than most?
 questions to ask yourself
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 I'm safe, for the moment. What more could I want? Safety means I can continue to
 contribute to my cause.
 Light, life, and liberty for all.
 everything else is incidental.
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 ya'll just have stagefright. I get it.
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 anything I do I'd do for free for a leftist
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 External post:
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 Ride the truck TO battle, not into it.
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 How does it feel to know that everything you now will be working on is in
 pursuit of the birth of socialism?
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 If you live in a red state, come to a blue state now. If you live in a
 blue state, house people. Let them come, and let the right leave. They probably
 won't, but if they try to, let them.
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 "oh yeah well what if we don't support socialism" yeah well stick with me and
 we'll be able to decide what socialism means. We can make it better. We
 can do it together. Your perspective is valuable and I want you at the table.
 But we cannot abide fascism, it will consume and destroy us. So let's fight
 back, and tomorrow we'll figure out what are our fiats
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 Those who take the initiative often win, but fighting on the defensive is
 typically easier.
 Good thing we have the blessing of both.
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 I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we shouldn't
 sleep on.
 We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
 spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
 meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
 attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans are
 defeated by rapid flexibility.
 The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
 done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
 moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is, do
 you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job that'll
 help us go faster.
 Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to reclaim?
 Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the bloodshed - so long
 as you can keep them clean.
 If people are being a bother and just slowing things down, *fucking shoot them."
 you have my permission. What time is it? Time to fucking go.
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 "I don't know what it means to go"
 Well for most people it means spending the next couple months in the city park.
 As much time as you can manage. For everyone else it means ensuring that your
 stuff is in the right place at the right time.
 In Philly during BLM people left pallets of bricks all over, to incite a riot. I
 wish we had taken them up on their offer. Bricks however today will not be
 sufficient. Remember how I spoke my heart to the cops this summer? It converts
 them still. Trust that message, that we are working to protect our society from
 harm, and I think you'll find that they respond in kind.
 If not, well there are many more of us than them.
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 If you can't get the city cops on your side, either sit tight until they see
 what time it is and reconsider, or get out of dodge.
 Come to a battleground state, nobody will question why you are homeless and full
 of lit sparks.
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 There's nothing left for you at your home. It's okay to leave it all behind.
 Just bring the things that you made if you can, the things that reflect "you" -
 the most irreplaceable things, like family photos and precious small charms.
 Everything else is to be abandoned. If necessary in your particular case, dear
 reader, for I swear it to you in your face: we will not let these fascists go
 far.
 Come please, and help us. I don't care what you once owned, I don't care from
 where you claim is your home, just don't betray us and we'll take care of you
 and fight against the dark.
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 We need to fight back. We can win, and secure the bright future.
 If nothing less, they can put "we tried" on our memorial tombstone they erect in
 buenos aires or wherever.
 But I think we can win. We have advantages they could not reach, and we must
 leverage them to our greatest disposal.
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 I want you to print out electoral COUNTY results. One page for each state. Also
 50 copies of the entire map of the USA for good measure make a couple maps with
 other things too, like GDP or topology.
 Then take them to your local leftist, lgbt, whatever meeting and distribute them
 out. Tell them "build us a plan for this state. Use your phone to research, and
 work with nearby states - sometimes blue areas cross borders, and they should be
 united in your mind when strategizing.
 Washington and Oregon can be treated as one, same for NM and Colorado. North
 East is a mega region and should work together. Don't sleep on southern cities,
 they can handle themselves, but united they would be stronger. Find a way.
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 This is our moment, guys. We got this.
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 "do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.
 For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.
 People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
 it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
 working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
 guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more spending
 time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to fulfill
 them.
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 Picture this: you're on a TV show like survivor and you just got a lootbox from
 the show's producers. Inside is... Something, whatever you'd like. How would you
 use this while camping?
 If it wouldn't be useful, throw it away. Don't let your life be cluttered by
 toys and play.
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 Know who in your social circle is leaving, and give them your pets.
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 Expect millions dead.
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 Bond with your Democrat brothers and sisters in the south. Start with John
 Denver imho
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 Remember, there are purple counties all over. The fighting will be fierce there.
 Look for places where people retire, those communities will be strong because
 the old people can handle daily tasks for the young.
 Life as we know it is ending, but a new day is beginning. We can do it if we
 choose to.
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 Anytime you get in a car with someone or agree to improvise a solution to some
 thing, post their social media handles on the internet. Just so we can have a
 paper trail when searching for sedition.
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 We all knew capitalism was the Titanic headed for the iceberg. Did you know the
 Titanic might have survived if they had reversed one propellor and turned the
 other to max? But they didn't. They thought they could coast by.
 It was larger underneath the water.
 Capitalism would have destroyed us. We couldn't dismantle capitalism with
 Kamala. This had to happen, and even if you don't believe that then
 trust that we are where the fascists say we are. And we will fight back.
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 It's okay to be scared. I'm scared too. All we can do is try.
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══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────
 Keep in mind that this is sedition. Do you trust in democracy? Do you
 see how it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation
 does not consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to
 protect the pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three
 separate states, with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege
 ongoing.
 Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
 your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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 Ride the truck TO battle, not into it.
 a thread in 19 parts
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 How does it feel to know that everything you now will be working on is in
 pursuit of the birth of socialism?
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 -> file: fediverse/4378
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 "oh yeah well what if we don't support socialism" yeah well stick with me and
 we'll be able to decide what socialism means. We can make it better. We can do
 it together. Your perspective is valuable and I want you at the table. But we
 cannot abide fascism, it will consume and destroy us. So let's fight back, and
 tomorrow we'll figure out what are our fiats
┌─────────┐                                                           ┌───────────┐
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 -> file: fediverse/4379
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 Those who take the initiative often win, but fighting on the defensive is
 typically easier.
 Good thing we have the blessing of both.
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 -> file: fediverse/4380
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we shouldn't
 sleep on.
 We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
 spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
 meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
 attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans are
 defeated by rapid flexibility.
 The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
 done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
 moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is, do
 you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job that'll
 help us go faster.
 Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to reclaim?
 Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the bloodshed - so long
 as you can keep them clean.
┌─────────┐                                                           ┌───────────┐
│ similar │                                                           │ different │
╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘

 -> file: fediverse/4381
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 If people are being a bother and just slowing things down, *fucking shoot them."
 you have my permission. What time is it? Time to fucking go.
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 -> file: fediverse/4382
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 "I don't know what it means to go"
 Well for most people it means spending the next couple months in the city park.
 As much time as you can manage. For everyone else it means ensuring that your
 stuff is in the right place at the right time.
 In Philly during BLM people left pallets of bricks all over, to incite a riot. I
 wish we had taken them up on their offer. Bricks however today will not be
 sufficient. Remember how I spoke my heart to the cops this summer? It converts
 them still. Trust that message, that we are working to protect our society from
 harm, and I think you'll find that they respond in kind.
 If not, well there are many more of us than them.
 If you can't get the city cops on your side, either sit tight until they see
 what time it is and reconsider, or get out of dodge.
┌─────────┐                                                           ┌───────────┐
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╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘

 -> file: fediverse/4383
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 Come to a battleground state, nobody will question why you are homeless and full
 of lit sparks.
 There's nothing left for you at your home. It's okay to leave it all behind.
 Just bring the things that you made if you can, the things that reflect "you" -
 the most irreplaceable things, like family photos and precious small charms.
 Everything else is to be abandoned. If necessary in your particular case, dear
 reader, for I swear it to you in your face: we will not let these fascists go
 far.
 Come please, and help us. I don't care what you once owned, I don't care from
 where you claim is your home, just don't betray us and we'll take care of you
 and fight against the dark.
┌─────────┐                                                           ┌───────────┐
│ similar │                                                           │ different │
╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘

 -> file: fediverse/4384
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 We need to fight back. We can win, and secure the bright future.
 If nothing less, they can put "we tried" on our memorial tombstone they erect in
 buenos aires or wherever.
 But I think we can win. We have advantages they could not reach, and we must
 leverage them to our greatest disposal.
┌─────────┐                                                           ┌───────────┐
│ similar │                                                           │ different │
╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘

 -> file: fediverse/4385
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 I want you to print out electoral COUNTY results. One page for each state. Also
 50 copies of the entire map of the USA for good measure make a couple maps with
 other things too, like GDP or topology.
 Then take them to your local leftist, lgbt, whatever meeting and distribute them
 out. Tell them "build us a plan for this state. Use your phone to research, and
 work with nearby states - sometimes blue areas cross borders, and they should be
 united in your mind when strategizing.
 Washington and Oregon can be treated as one, same for NM and Colorado. North
 East is a mega region and should work together. Don't sleep on southern cities,
 they can handle themselves, but united they would be stronger. Find a way.
 the goal is to practice thinking about how to move strategically.
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╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘

 -> file: fediverse/4386
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 This is our moment, guys. We got this.
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 -> file: fediverse/4387
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 "do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.
 For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.
 People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
 it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
 working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
 guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
┌─────────┐                                                           ┌───────────┐
│ similar │                                                           │ different │
╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘

 -> file: fediverse/4388
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more spending
 time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to fulfill
 them.
┌─────────┐                                                           ┌───────────┐
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╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘

 -> file: fediverse/4389
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 Know who in your social circle is leaving, and give them your pets.
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 -> file: fediverse/4390
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 Expect millions dead.
 No matter which way it goes - genocide or civil war, it doesn't matter to the
 reaper.
 I choose the path that I might win. Do what you will.
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 -> file: fediverse/4391
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 It's okay to be scared. I'm scared too. All we can do is try.
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 -> file: fediverse/4392
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────
 Keep in mind that this is sedition. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see how it
 may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does not
 consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect the
 pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate states,
 with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.
 Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
 your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
┌─────────┐                                                           ┌───────────┐
│ similar │                                                           │ different │
╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘

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 I live in the Pacific Northwest.
 Tactically, nothing has changed - we must still work to secure food, housing,
 employment, HRT, and all the other materials necessary for life.
 Strategically, we're suddenly in a whole new game.
 In the Pacific Northwest, the first goal should be to unite Portland and
 Seattle. Right between them lies the capital of the Proud Boys in a town called
 Battleground. How fitting.
 To the south, below Portland, there is Salem. Salem is red, but cities trend
 blue, so there might be allies there.
 Below Salem is Eugene. Eugene is blue. Salem must be secured.
 Part one: control battleground
 part two: control Salem
 Part Three, and the ultimate goal of phase one: deprive the far right of a
 pacific port
 strategically, preventing them from utilizing the pacific ocean will be SO much
 more productive than anything else we could be doing in this area.
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 I have more strategy, of course I do. I have some for every state. But I'll make
 a better document for it tomorrow. Tonight I sleep.
 I swear this to you. By this time next year, America will be free.
 We may still be at war, but at least we will have liberty.
 I cannot promise you victory, that is solely up to you and our shared destiny.
 But I'm hopeful.
 If not now... then when?
 Remember your dress rehearsals. Spend as much time in the park as you can. It
 will get better before it's done, but it will also be worse before it's done.
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 The world is watching America, and America is watching Portland.
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 There is no longer such a thing as "accelerationism"
 we are past the tipping point. Now is the weeks when months happen. We have all,
 each of us, been asleep. Sleep no longer.
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 Tonight I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow I'm hopping on my bike.
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 I need an editor. Someone who can re-arrange what I say and present it to an
 audience. The pen is mightier than the sword, and while my pen is mighty, you
 still need swords.
 I believe in democracy. I believe in the will of the people and the respect of
 the land. I believe in life, light, and liberty for all.
 Our nation has just elected, fairly, a dictator who will sell our country to
 foreign authoritarians just because he is small. I am stronger by far, but I
 lack his experience, and so I must rely on trusted advisors who grow with me.
 I am perhaps not the best choice, but I do believe I am one of the bravest.
 Judge me as you will.
 Trump will destroy the American experiment and invite fascism into our home. We
 have people to nurture and protect, and authoritarianism prevents us from doing
 so.
 He would deprive us of our light, and frankly he already has.
 He would deprive us of our liberty, and his plans to do so are clear and
 apparent.
 He would deprive us of our lives, and history has shown that this is a
 precedent.
 I do not consent to a Trump presidency. I do not consent to his corruption any
 longer. No more will I or my people be governed by such evil. We will fight
 back, of this I am certain.
 My demands are threefold.
 First, I demand that Trump be replaced by a moderate republican. Hold a primary
 and let Democrats vote. If none of your candidates work for us, pick a new
 roster and try again.
 The second is that Trump must be executed for treasonous high crimes. Nothing
 less than execution will suffice.
 Next, let the supreme court be purged and replaced. Half with democrats, half
 republicans, and one moderate who is widely regarded with respect.
 Failing these demands, I am willing to wage a terrible civil war for the soul of
 our country. I know this is treason, but I do it anyway even though I am a
 patriot. I do it because our land has been stolen by a man and his followers who
 seek to plunge my people into despair.
 He is but one man. So am I.
 He has an army of followers. I do not.
 Each of the wars we fight will be smaller than the last, as each of our cities
 struggles toward our last gasp.
 But together we are strong, and by connecting them we might deliver ourselves
 from harm.
 Against the far right, we must secure a cleansing blow. There is no greater
 fight. The world is watching.
 To that end, I suggest a great and perilous fight. I see no other option in this
 remarkable century. Prepare as you might, I suggest pushups and resource
 acquisition.
 Deliver your resources somewhere safe if you're in a red area, and meet your
 neighbors if you're not.
 A blue city in a red state must survive a siege. Prepare yourself for this.
 Assume that supplies will need to be delivered by convoy if by land, and drone
 airdrop from the skies. Develop ways to protect these supply methods.
 Public spaces are our homes now, our houses are just where we sleep.
 I swear this to you: on my life I will be honorable and fair. I will seek true
 justice when I can, where everyone gets what they want, and failing that I will
 be plainly just. I will respect all peoples, and do my best to fight for a
 brighter tomorrow.
 I dare for the bright age. I see nothing else that I'd like to spend my life
 doing than daring.
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 Do not give in to despair. They've trained us to cope. Expect losses, and
 celebrate victories. We can do it together, you and me.
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 The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
 space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
 Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers you're
 a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not worth
 controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not attack
 from that direction.
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 Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
 etc.
 Put guns on them. Figure it out.
 Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
 know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
 AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
 control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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║ good morning.                                                                    │
║ I have some more things to say, and then I will start working on those maps.     │
║ Then, time permitting, I'll ride around my city and sit on park benches and eat  │
║ from food trucks and write in my notebook. At least until it gets dark - I'm a   │
║ skinny white girl, and I'm not THAT stupid.                                      │
║ ... Okay maybe I'm a little stupid, because that's how I got caught last time.   │
║ This time I'll be more careful, for your sake.                                   │
║ No unexpected bike maneuvers leading to a crash. The spirit of revolution that   │
║ stirs inside me deserves better than scrapes and bruises.                        │
║ No following strangers for 12+ hours because I wanted to keep an eye on unknown  │
║ agents. That's not my responsibility any longer.                                 │
║ Everything I do, I do it for you. For a better world. For the kids I never will  │
║ get to have. For everything I believe in, and all the things I hope you believe  │
║ in too.                                                                          │
║ A better world is possible. A better world is within reach.                      │
║ For now, have some things I wrote this morning. Then, later, some preliminary    │
║ discussable maps. DFTBA.                                                         │
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 ... Dare for the Bright Age, though "don't forget to be awesome" works too I
 guess.
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 Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
 I need an editor. Someone who can re-arrange what I say and present it to an
 audience. The pen is mightier than the sword, and while my pen is mighty, you
 still need swords.
 I believe in democracy. I believe in the will of the people and the respect of
 the land. I believe in life, light, and liberty for all.
 Our nation has just elected, fairly, a dictator who will sell our country to
 foreign authoritarians just because he is small. I am stronger by far, but I
 lack his experience, and so I must rely on trusted advisors who grow with me.
 I am perhaps not the best choice, but I do believe I am one of the bravest.
 Judge me as you will.
 Trump will destroy the American experiment and invite fascism into our home. We
 have people to nurture and protect, and authoritarianism prevents us from doing
 so.
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 Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
 He would deprive us of our light, and frankly he already has.
 He would deprive us of our liberty, and his plans to do so are clear and
 apparent.
 He would deprive us of our lives, and history has shown that this is a
 precedent.
 I do not consent to a Trump presidency. I do not consent to his corruption any
 longer. No more will I or my people be governed by such evil. We will fight
 back, of this I am certain.
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 Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
 My demands are threefold.
 First, I demand that Trump be replaced by a moderate republican. Hold a primary
 and let Democrats vote. If none of your candidates work for us, pick a new
 roster and try again.
 The second is that Trump must be executed for treasonous high crimes. Nothing
 less than execution will suffice.
 Next, let the supreme court be purged and replaced. Half with democrats, half
 republicans, and one moderate who is widely regarded with respect.
 Failing these demands, I am willing to wage a terrible civil war for the soul of
 our country. I know this is treason, but I do it anyway even though I am a
 patriot. I do it because our land has been stolen by a man and his followers who
 seek to plunge my people into despair.
 He is but one man. So am I.
 He has an army of followers. I do not.
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 Each of the wars we fight will be smaller than the last, as each of our cities
 struggles toward our last gasp.
 But together we are strong, and by connecting them we might deliver ourselves
 from harm.
 Against the far right, we must secure a cleansing blow. There is no greater
 fight. The world is watching.
 To that end, I suggest a great and perilous fight. I see no other option in this
 remarkable century. Prepare as you might, I suggest pushups and resource
 acquisition.
 Deliver your resources somewhere safe if you're in a red area, and meet your
 neighbors if you're not.
 A blue city in a red state must survive a siege. Prepare yourself for this.
 Assume that supplies will need to be delivered by convoy if by land, and drone
 airdrop from the skies. Develop ways to protect these supply methods.
 Public spaces are our homes now, our houses are just where we sleep.
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 I swear this to you: on my life I will be honorable and fair. I will seek true
 justice when I can, where everyone gets what they want, and failing that I will
 be plainly just. I will respect all peoples, and do my best to fight for a
 brighter tomorrow.
 I dare for the bright age. I see nothing else that I'd like to spend my life
 doing than daring.
 Do not give in to despair. They've trained us to cope. Expect losses, and
 celebrate victories. We can do it together, you and me.
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 The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
 space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
 Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers you're
 a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not worth
 controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not attack
 from that direction.
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 Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
 etc.
 Put guns on them. Figure it out.
 Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
 know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
 AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
 control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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 That's all that I've written so far in the hour or three that I've been awake.
 Working on maps now.
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 "Fighting back" doesn't necessarily mean standing on a street corner with a
 rifle.
 Begin to orient your life around guns. How can you support the people who wield
 them? We all need food, shelter, kindness, and inspiration.
 Your fears and your worries shall bother you no longer, for your life as you've
 led it so far has been the life of capital. It's okay to miss what you've lost,
 but remember who took it from you and enrage. Then, engage.
 Nothing starts today. It has started quite a while ago, and it's only now
 beginning to flicker and spark. It burned low for all this time, and it will
 burn low again. But it's the dry season, so prepare for wildfires.
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 There are no safe countries. The far right is watching us as a predator watches
 prey. Do you fight, or do you die when there's nowhere left to run to?
 I am committing sedition as we speak. Best case scenario I face prison time,
 worst case I am buried in the same grave as all of you. But I think there's a
 route somewhere in our future that involves a brilliant spark of hope. A future
 where we build the world we want for our children and theirs.
 I give myself to you, use me as you will. This is your chance to save the world.
 If you have kids, it is not cowardice to leave, but please consider leaving to a
 blue state. We'll need you, and your kids deserve a good life with us.
 Children belong with grand-parents. Perhaps not yours, but someone good that can
 be trusted. If theyre too young to advocate for themselves, keep them by your
 side.
 Listen to them when you spend moments with them. Ask them if theyre being
 abused. Nothing will harm them so long as we hear them. Be in public parks.
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 There are no safe outcomes. They have forced our hand. We are as we are, and I
 can think of no better life lived than a life of our own design spent in pursuit
 of our hopes.
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 Do not fear the cops. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, but the
 majority just want to keep society ordered and safe. They do not question the
 rules they have been given, and that's by their design.
 Give them better rules however, and they will be a crucial ally. See these two
 posts I made last summer for inspiration, from back when I thought that
 resistance would involve protests.
 Don't protest now. March. Be in many places at once. Have eyes beyond your core.
 If you have time, maybe check out the posts I made here from the beginning of
 July to mid-June. Remember there's going to be a lot of schizoposting, for that
 is what I do when I am in disguise. [it's easy, just post with no filter when
 you're high]
 Just... try to wade through all that. There are kernels of truth in there for I
 lay my spirit to bare, and I do believe that in some ways I am remarkable. The
 same as each of you are too.
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 [6/5]
 And now, several months after I made this post, I feel no less inspired. From
 within me burns a fire and I cannot restrain it any longer.
 Their numbers are not that much larger. We have many advantages they do not
 possess. Use them to your advantage, but do not neglect the necessary losses.
 Fight back with your fists if you must, but do try and fight back with your
 purses.
 We are all in this together, each child woman and man. We live on a planet
 together, and they have forced us to fight for our very lives.
 Our fates are calling. We will get stronger. We will overcome.
 They are at their zenith. We can only get higher. Fight until the last day!
 Today is the day to be inspired.
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 @user-1074 
 I do not fear as you do. The center will stand by the side, but as time goes on
 more and more of them will fight. And most will fight for what they know, what
 they were once told is their home. They will fight for the constitution, or for
 how it remains, they will fight with us. Most of them will.
 Have no fear. The loudest and bravest amongst us are not the only ones on our
 side.
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 ... Maps, my dear, those are important fuel.
 But also food is important. Why haven't you gotten groceries for weeks?
 It's also important to clean yourself. Doesn't your apartment still have fleas?
 Your cat demands your attention. Give it to her.
 Wear masks when in public, to ward off disease. When you are speaking remove it,
 so others can see your totality.
 There are some who belong here who aren't so kind. Remember that your neighbor
 is republican, their neighbor is democrat, their neighbor is republican, their
 neighbor is democrat. It's going to get messy, but here in our cities there are
 plenty of us. We can defeat them, so long as we are armed.
 Practice reloading. Practice aiming. These things can be done in secrecy. The
 noise and the recoil are enough to set your nerves ablaze, but ride that high
 and trust in your adrenaline. Have your foes surrounded on at least three sides
 before you engage. These are words for a different day, but keep them in mind.
 Internalize them.
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 trust more in the megaphone than the gun. Together we are strong, alone they are
 fearful.
 And if I know anything about them, it is that they are afraid. Cornered dogs
 bite the hardest. But we are united. Here in America we will fight with our
 arms, and uplift those who have had everything taken. Celebrate our differences,
 they provide mutually beneficial perspectives. You don't have to be friends to
 have common goals, but it helps.
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 @user-1013 
 They may return to us if they choose, when they realize that we were right all
 along.
 Otherwise, they might feel disenfranchised and choose to disengage. That is
 expected and allowed.
 Others amongst them might go right. Fuck 'em, they always cared for gold over
 lives.
 You are right, their methods have not worked. They have sustained our society up
 to this point and for that I thank them - but we are entering a new age for our
 country, and we shall build it as a federation.
 They are more than welcome to observe and offer insight from their years spent
 observing and wrestling with Republicans, but understand that much of their
 insight is dealing with their elite class of politicians and not with who you
 and I might come across on the street.
 They are encouraged to learn from us. To do otherwise is at best to neglect our
 only route to a bright future - at worst it is to obstruct us, to delay us, to
 keep us running in circles.
 Find the people who are sabotaging our efforts and move on
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 @user-1663 
 For context, if you don't know these names they are among the most prominent of
 our enemy's thought leaders. They represent their followers. This is who you
 fight.
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 On the plains, it's easier to pass through a large country than a small one. In
 forested or mountainous areas, the opposite is true - they are large, wild, and
 untamed, and thus difficult to get through.
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 @user-1666 
 I refuse to consent to genocide. Find your bravery. Fight back. You personally
 might never get a chance again.
 Being queer is a culture. In the future you describe where we are wiped out and
 forced to regrow our lives, nothing will remain of us.
 That is not a future I foresee, not here in this century.
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 @user-246 
 I am the infohazard but I have that "automatically expand CW" post marked off. I
 like to click them each time, and with CWs it makes it easier to scroll back a
 couple months to find what you're looking for.
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 @user-1666 
 sorry, I'm on a roll. Gotta speak my mind, even if it has other stuff bouncing
 around in it. I hope you understand : )
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 there are no safe havens from the coming fight. Some places may remain peaceful,
 but not for long. Why not fight for your home, instead of whatever gutter they
 force you into?
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 @user-1671 @user-1672 
 do both
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 @user-1675 
 warriors need help the most.
 why should they cook and clean if they're busy dying for you?
 help them. Do what you can for them. Or become one yourself.
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 @user-1678 
 I am calm and focused in my anger and despair
 feelings fade. resolutions remain.
 I am sobered and resolved and committed.
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 @user-1074 
 you claim surprise, but I doubt that is so.
 The only thing on my mind is the dissolution of capitalism and the freedom of
 all those enslaved. I fight for liberty, for justice, for kindness for all.
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 buying guns is one thing
 but food is just as important.
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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 gonna take a nap and eat something besides trail mix. How is it already almost
 dark? Might have to save tomorrow for going to the park.
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 I would never kill myself
 just want to put it out there.
 I'd rather face torture and shame and confinement than die by my own hand.
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 do you know ANYONE ELSE saying the same things as me?
 if not, then you know who is ready to lead.
 if so, then don't tell me about them, and don't show them me. It would be nice
 to know that I'm not alone, though.
 I know you're scared. I'm scared too. It's not like I've done this before (well,
 except for a dress rehearsal or two)
 We're on the same side. We're getting ready to move. Now is the time to go, so
 get ready or be purged.
 We will not relent our land they seek to steal. We will not defy them in unjust
 ways. They have taken so much from us, so now they must face our blades.
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 trust that your allies are working.
 honor them by doing the same.
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 I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell
 you why to do it.
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 I once made Webfishing, but World of Warcraft instead of fishing. Not to split
 the party or anything hehe
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 @user-211 
 alternatively, a person with guns + a person with extra food = a well fed
 militia
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 lentils are easier to cook than beans and are nutritionally very similar. Heck,
 I just throw them in with the rice in the rice-cooker and it works out great.
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 they are not MAGA anymore. Don't call them Trumpers. He won't last long.
 Call them what they are. They are part of a newly born Confederacy, and we must
 call them by their name. That name demands respect, and we must respect their
 power.
 Then, when you're sufficiently cautious, begin conjuring visions of their
 downfall. Ideally accompanied by carefully laid plans intended to accomplish
 specific strategic goals.
 They are top-heavy. Once their bravest and thickest perish they will have
 nothing left but their weak fools. They are scared, nothing unites them more
 than fear, and for that they are weakened.
 Our bonds are those of love. I would die for my neighbor. I would die for our
 world. They have no passion, no rigor, all they have is hate and vigor.
 Martial skills we can learn. We will have to, sooner rather than later. Be
 prepared, work hard, and do what you're good at, ideally what you'd like to do.
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 to all the red states, please. send me your best and brightest. I have a
 pressing need.
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 @user-1681 @user-1652 
 expand national parks
 build carbon scrapers out of moss, wood, and automated water misters
 use heat pumps, rocket mass heaters, and subsurface airflow cooling in new
 constructions. Try to convert older buildings when possible.
 maintain trading routes to China and other places that produce solar panels.
 cut down on plastic waste by switching to glass and metal containers for food.
 Develop infrastructure to clean and sanitize cans and bottles at grocery stores,
 and refill food containers to be resold there.
 Remember that plastic is a wonder material that can do so many things. We can
 use it, but keep it in check.
 I think electric vehicles are a mid-term goal. For now, gasoline is more
 flexible, unfortunately. In the near future that reality will change, so look
 toward tomorrow and rejoice.
 Our infrastructure is car based. We cannot change that in the near term.
 Above all else, keep our national parks pristine. They are our heritage to our
 children, and they are temples to our nature.
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 @user-1074 
 ... you were never alone, you just spent too long looking in your black mirror
 and convinced yourself otherwise.
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 As far as I can tell, Trump is up by ~5 million popular votes.
 We live in a country of 337 million people.
 5 million is a lot if you put them in the same room, but not if they're spread
 out.
 We have city parks. They have Twitter. Press our advantage before they realize
 how centralized they are.
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 trying to force down the last of my rice and beans before falling asleep...
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 before we have convoys and checkpoints, we need a census.
 before a census, we need to spend time in the park.
 before the park, we need an election - an inciteful event which inspires people
 to seek common ground.
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 @user-1268 
 void linux, gentoo, and nixos. But mostly Void Linux
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 @user-1268 
 I like Void Linux because it's simple, clean, and gets out of your way. It was
 my first Linux distribution and I think it's excellent for a beginner.
 I use Gentoo because my old best friend installed it on a thinkpad she gifted
 me. Then I kept it because I liked the idea of compiling all my software locally
 and being as flexible as possible.
 I installed NixOS on my newest laptop because I thought it'd be nice to have a
 system that was dependable. NixOS has all the system configuration done in a
 single file, so if you save that file you can rebuild your system on any other
 system with minimal effort (at least, that's the idea - I haven't tested it yet)
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 Talk to veterans for tactics and discipline.
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 Don't be worried, be cautious. Caution is actionable.
 To convert from worry to caution, think about what is within your zone of
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 If you swim in the deep red sea, assume that all of your actions will be
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 Pay attention to me, for I am convinced that "me" is what we need.
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 good morning. My Mastodon updated in the middle of the night, teehee
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 democrats probably won't fight for socialism, but they sure as heck will fight
 against republicans.
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 @user-246 yeah that was nice wasn't it
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 @user-246 
 also it consumes soooo much vertical space and since I use mastodon on a
 computer the vertical space is at a premium. Meanwhile the right 1/3rd of the
 screen is blank...
 not to be discouraging or anything, volunteer efforts are appreciated...
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 at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
 unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And then
 you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
 concentrated ones.
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 Ya'll are so upset because it feels like you failed, that this country failed
 you, that everything is doomed because this country is not the one you thought
 it was, all these takes and vibes.
 They're all fucking wrong.
 Tens of millions of us voted the other way.
 Tens of millions of us voted for democracy.
 Tens of millions of us voted for liberty.
 That is a fuckload of people. We're far stronger than they are. I pray we are
 bolder as well.
 soemthing something subscrie for more cat facts lmaooooo
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 if your zone of influence is larger than your degree of control, you will be
 completely overwhelmed.
  if your sphere of concern is much bigger than your sphere of influence, you're gonna feel totally overwhelmed.

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 I went to a trans meetup a couple days ago. It was invigorating. The first half
 we talked about hormones and bathrooms and politics and all the normal shit
 these meetups tend to do. I don't tend to go to them because it's the same stuff
 every time, and I'm over that. I've been out for a decade. I've shared what I
 need to share.
 Partway through I said "If you want to talk about how to bash back, meet me
 outside."
 people came.
 Be like me.
 You will forever vanquish your demons if you face them in earnest. I had
 stagefright and adrenaline but I took the lead, and we had a productive
 conversation. We need to have many more conversations.
 We have strategy. It is not set in stone, it is flexible, and able to be
 adjusted based on tactical successes and failures.
 tactics are what we need to discuss at in-person meetings.
 You are just one person. The people you know are more valuable than the value
 you personally provide.
 Think of yourself like a node to connect.
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 oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to listen,
 you lucky ducks ; )
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 doom is like sand thrown on a fire.
 don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
 smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.
 but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
 future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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 slow and steady wins the race, but most people are sleeping at the starting
 line.
 wake them up. show them how radical a "normal" person can be. if they see
 themselves in you, they can emulate what you do.
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 @user-1268 
 that's kind of a big question 😅
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 @user-1268 
 if you know how to program in C this is a good resource for building networking
 applications:
 https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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 do you have a glass bottle with a weird shape that's hard to clean that has
 something stuck on the inside?
 try using salt, lemon/lime juice, and a bit of water. Then shake really hard.
 Works like a charm in most cases.
 plus if you happen to have more than one for whatever reason, you can re-use the
 cleaning solution!
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 if you have to sanitize, use a bit of vodka too LOL
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 Moving forward, "liberal" when used outside of an academic context means "ally
 of liberty"
 treat them as such.
 feel free to point out how fucking stupid it is to be moderate, but don't punch
 down by proclaiming them your enemy. We are all friends against the fourth
 reich.
 your radicalism is now your wealth. Nurture the flames of revolution in the
 hearts of others. Show them what it means to be free. Fight for your life daily!
 If nothing else, to get in the habit, and to set a good example.
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 can't wait for season two of Andor, either it totally sucks or it'll knock our
 socks off. But something tells me it won't hurt us either way.
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 @user-1268 
 window managing and desktop managing can be separate, but typically a desktop
 implies windows so they're often bundled together.
 I use DWM on my desktop and i3 on my laptops, and they're both just window
 managers. Specifically "tiling" window managers, and they don't have desktops.
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 what, you're telling me you don't constantly have the voices of the past
 whispering words into your ear like "FACE THEM" or whatever? Huh must suck to be
 you
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 instead of reading the room, I try to be the room. I think that's part of being
 autistic.
 But it also helps things get going.
 Whenever I see a subpost that might relate to me, I take it seriously, so feel
 free to boost things that you know I'll read if you'd like to speak to me.
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 okay I really need to get going. It's too easy to scroll mastodon looking for...
 um, "memes"
  On the plains, it's easier to pass through a large country than a small one. In forested or mountainous areas, the opposite is true - they are large, wild, and untamed, and thus difficult to get through.

I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell you why to do it.

Talk to veterans for tactics and discipline.

Don't be worried, be *cautious*. Caution is actionable.

To convert from worry to caution, think about what is within your zone of control.

If you swim in the deep red sea, assume that all of your actions will be perceived

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 They're not Americans, they're republicans
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 getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
 organizing.
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 gonna go on a walk. my cat is missing because I let her out last night. I'm
 worried sick! this morning I almost puked all over my toes.
 she'll probably show up when it gets dark. I bet she's hunkered down somewhere.
 Ah, well, might as well walk around my neighborhood actively searching bushes
 and such. Why not? It's not like I got anything else to do right now.
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 not only are we queer, we are also allies.
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 I was never going to consent to a Trump presidency. I knew this back in June
 when the Supreme Court nominated him as our king.
 We still have time to save our liberty.
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 I miss my cat, but now that it's dark I can go looking for her again. : )
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 where oh where is my dear sweet kitty
 she is lovely and wonderful and precious to me
 oh how I miss her, the squeaks, the litter flakes on my desk, the headbutts, the
 biscuits, the way she felt on my back as she climbed off the fridge...
 I do hope she comes back. : (
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 there is nothing more earnest than bravery
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 I've thought about it a bit, and I think blaming democracy for Hitler is a bit
 like blaming bullets for death.
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 @user-1573 
 the easiest analogy would be to say an election is a gun, votes are bullets, and
 the shooters are the candidates
 could also say that the shooting event is an election, bullets as a concept is
 democracy while each individual bullet is a vote, and the gun and shooters are
 the ballots and voters
 I dunno. I don't especially like thinking about guns and elections in the same
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 Please don't let me down. I trust you for a reason.
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 A peaceful revolution at this stage is impossible. Perhaps some-day in the
 future, but I fully intend to live to see our day of triumph, so... Peace is off
 the table.
 And frankly, civil war is the best out of all of the bad options for everyone
 involved, even them.
 We get to avoid genocide. We get to unite for a common cause - the shining torch
 of liberty.
 They get to burn their violent and reckless youth on war, while also eating
 their own tail and consuming their weak, their downtrodden, and their poor.
 obviously we're on the right side, and they will begin to realize that
 eventually. We must not fall into barbarism, but frankly I'm not concerned about
 that.
 Darkness begets the dawn.
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 Rest.
 Sleep.
 Heal.
 Recover.
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 The Democrats had one BILLION dollars. This is what they should have been doing,
 but they couldn't have known. They needed to spend it on the election in order
 for us to see that money, talent, and rationality can't beat whatever Trump
 brings to the table.
 Give me a billion dollars and I'll slay fascism. Give me ten and I'll save the
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 Yeah, sure, signal is encrypted, but they could just put a virus on your
 miniature pocket tv that streams your screen into a text recognition bot which
 streams that text into an LLM trained to report on suspicious seditious
 activity.
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 I tripped onto the light rail tracks today while a train was near
 I can't believe how fucking useless I am
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 I am not overly concerned about the impact of the military upon our struggle. 
 I truly believe that not only do we best represent the ideals they swear to
 uphold, but primarily I am not concerned because I believe they will be too busy
 supporting our allies overseas.
 It's up to us to defend our liberties.
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 @user-1074 
 alternatively, "I'll sleep when I'm dead"
 brb taking a nap
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 @user-1268 
 this is why I speak loudly and publicly
 we must be heard if we are to be believed. And it's time to start moving, so we
 need at a bare minimum consensus. And you can't have consensus if people don't
 believe you. If they don't believe in you.
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 Portland in the modern era gives me pre-revolution Philly vibes. Seattle,
 Boston. New York, SFC.
 And not JUST because of their relative locations, but somehow that helps a bit.
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 I try to always CW for cursing. Every time I do, I imagine it being read aloud
 for a blind person while their children sit on their lap and ask "daddy what's a
 motherfucker?" "well, that's me, son" and then the kid goes to preschool and
 says "My dad fucks my mother!" and they get kicked out so the dad has to take
 extra shifts to pay for babysitting and the kid grows up without proper
 socialization and the mother becomes an alcoholic and cries herself to sleep
 while the dad begins exploring motorcycles and weed and then the kid grows up to
 be an incel or whatever
 THIS is why CWs are important! Think of the poor regular-looking but kinda
 annoying dorks on the internet who self-impose celibacy because they're scared
 of emotional connection. The poor dears. I do hope they don't join the alt-right
 or whatever as a way of (Ritz this is like, ancient discourse why are you aping
 that one Contrapoints video) oh um yeah uh... CWs are important and I think
 that's where I'll toot and leave
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 @user-1074 
 You're right about your conclusion, but I'd like to point out that he already
 (sorta) did when he sent federal agents to "help out" during the Portland BLM
 protests. There were national guard on the streets of Philly after the first
 weekend.
 Which I'm sure you know of course, but I think having seen what happens the
 military will be more likely to resist. They got their hands full. They don't
 want to have to deal with his bullshit, but I do believe they are ready to if
 they need to.
 They protect the constitution, the people, and the land. If we do not harm those
 things, we're (probably) clear from their sights.
 At this stage, I advocate against "broken window" riots. I'm also mostly against
 protests, because it's clear that nobody with power is listening. I do however
 believe in the radicalizing potential of mass civil movements and the energy
 that physical presence can bring, which I believe in MARCHES and PARADES more
 than protests and riots.
 We need those windows too...
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 If you're radical enough to consider yourself "antifa" then you are probably
 working as hard as you can. I wouldn't ask you to do more.
 We must demand that others work for our future as well. It is unreasonable to
 demand so much of us. We must be funded and supported if we are to mobilize, and
 we must have the freedom to move and organize if we are to contest our enemies.
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 if you have kids in your life it might be a good idea to check out these retro
 gaming handhelds:
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1irg60f9qsZOkhp0cwOU7Cy4rJQeyusEUzTNQzhoTYTU/edit?gid=0#gid=0
 they're great for long car trips, or going camping, or staying at grandma's
 house for an extended period of time, and other interesting times like that.
 I hear Anbernic has a sale going on today.
 Also I recommend going for one that runs Linux if possible, the Android ones are
 less hackable and therefore less reliable.
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 does anyone know a linux utility which will allow me to "snip" part of the
 screen a'la flameshot, automatically spit the image into a text recognition
 system (ran locally) and place the extracted text into my clipboard?
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 multi-part articles that end a section halfway through the piece with "... in
 conclusion, blah blah blah blah thing that I just said but summarized." make me
 thing they're written by AI
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 "... while we still have much to learn about thing, blah blah blah blah about
 thing."
 "... it's important to remember that thing about the other thing, and you should
 always keep in mind considerations when considering doing the thing this article
 is about."
 in relation to the picture: bro my cat is not going to recognize a picture of
 themselves. they don't "get" selfies. what are you even talking about, do your
 job editors and stop trying to take cheaper shortcuts because you're fucking
 lazy.
  screenshot of the suspected AI generated article. Text is as follows:

Utilizing Visual Landmarks

Visual landmarks can also be useful in attracting your cat’s attention and guiding them home. Place a visible object, such as a brightly colored flag or a poster with your cat’s photo, near your home to help your cat recognize the location.

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 OMG SHE JUST CAME BACK
 she looks like she was buried alive but SHE'S BACK
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 "but what even is a fascist, can you define it"
 I'm not going to do your fucking homework for you. They are fascist. Listen to
 me, or study history and agree.
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 I'm not here to convince you. If you're reading this, odds are we already agree.
 I'm here to give you memetic weapons to use when convincing liberals to
 wake the fuck up and check the time.
 Don't fucking talk to conservatives anymore. Unless you got a thing going and
 you're close to deradicalizing / converting them already. It's not worth it
 anymore, and I fear for their souls, but we need to focus on building a bedrock
 of support rather than wasting compassion on our enemies-to-be.
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║ okay I know all of my spiritual followers are going to assume it's because I     │
║ denounced AI and sacrificed it from my life or something but the truth is that   │
║ she came home because of my own dedicated hard work. And a bit of lucky rain.    │
║ My scent is all over my neighborhood. But rain cleanses, and today (well,        │
║ yesterday, I haven't slept much tbh) it rained all day. Around 3am this morning  │
║ it seemed to have cleared up a bit, so I walked in a straight-ish line to her    │
║ last known location (about 2 blocks away) and then one block more. I walked      │
║ back-and-forth several times, trying to spread my scent down near her nose-level │
║ where she could smell it by touching lampposts trees and such. I rubbed my       │
║ fingers in my arm-pits every once in a while because I figured it might help.    │
║ All of my prayers and my thoughts and my psychic rituals did NOTHING to solve my │
║ problem. No amount of despair or longing brought my kitty back to me.            │
║ You know what did?                                                               │
║ I thought about it, I created a method, and I stuck to it. Thats it. ttyl        │
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 they should make a loaf of bread that's just butts and another type of loaf of
 bread that has the crust already cut off
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 Stop telling the "main characters" to chill the fuck out and instead try and put
 them in the same room.
 Chances are they'll all agree, and they'll come up with something to do to fight
 for liberty.
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 "hey, wanna congregate with us? Cool my name is so-and-so, this is [person],
 over here is [other persion]. We're gonna walk down to the fountain over there,
 feel free to join us"
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 The fall of man, in pursuit of those who give a damn
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 does anyone know of a recipe that uses only flour, butter, yeast, eggs, and
 salt? It doesn't need to use every ingredient, but those are easy to acquire.
 ideally with the ability to include nuts or dried fruit or something else
 nutritious.
 the requirements include the ability to cook it using only a rice-cooker (or
 crock pot, or other kind of slow-cooking ceramic dish which heats from all
 directions at once)
 in addition, it must NOT need kneading. It must be able to be cooked passively
 without attention. The fewer steps, the better.
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 @user-1684 
 I use dmenu, so I'm thinking I'll write a script and call it using dmenu. The
 script will start by using flameshot to grab the snipped part of the screen into
 the clipboard, and then I need to find an OCR engine (thanks for the google-able
 term btw!) which can take clipboard contents as input, and output text to the
 clipboard.
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 @user-217 
 the hunger of the maw
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 @user-1686 
 This looks pretty good! It has a lot of sugar, I'm looking for something more
 savory. For energy and nutrition. Thank you, this is a good easy "cake" style
 recipe, and it helps. 🥰
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║ in strategy, the first move is always public knowledge, while the second is in   │
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║ This is good design because well designed games reflect reality, and the first   │
║ move is very rarely a surprise. Timing can shock you, methods can scare you, but │
║ the strategic goals are almost always known in advance to both sides.            │
║ The third move is to challenge your foe's advances while striking in a new,      │
║ unexpected way. The fourth almost always addresses the unexpected, often with    │
║ force out of proportion to the impact of the third, leaving the second to be     │
║ defeated by the first and third in tandem. The fifth is a feint, as the first    │
║ and third come to bear against the fourth, while the sixth is a rapid retreat    │
║ and attempt to regroup. The seventh should strike where they intend to be, not   │
║ where they are. Beyond that you must press your advantages and shore up your     │
║ critical weaknesses, while sacrificing the weaknesses that are not part of your  │
║ win condition.                                                                   │
║ These rules are not set in stone                                                 │
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 @user-1074 
 if anything, depression is a temporary disability, because you can and will work
 your way through it.
 There will come a day when you find yourself awash in love and contentment, in
 righteous determination, and stalwart resolve. Your depression will feel as
 distant a memory as the imprints of your chains.
 You can start walking toward that day right now. I do believe you already are.
 Have faith in yourself, trust your future, honor your past, and find grace in
 the hearts of your others.
 All this will pass. It gets better. You are stronger than you know, and when
 tested you will shine with a furious glow. I see this in you, I know it to be
 true, do not forget it and do not relent.
 But you will forget it, this I also know, for I have forgotten it many times
 before. It will come back, you will get better at that, but it takes time.
 Trust.
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 @user-1689 
 ha whoops gonna repost
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 useful for long car rides, especially if you want to watch several kinds of
 media at once like a bunch of soccer games or security cameras at your fifteen
 houses or the livestreams of a bunch of friends and you can't fit them all on
 your tiny-as-heck phone screen.
  diagram showing the different types of electricity (alternating current versus direct current)

in a car, the circular plug for lighting cigarettes also typically provides direct current power. The circular phone chargers and stuff use this.

alternating current is the plug used in a home, with the two prongs and the third circular ground line.

You can buy an inverter which converts direct current (from a car) to alternating current (for a computer) for around 40-60$ if I remember correctly.

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 me, a transfemme: "yeah being a boy is kinda nice sometimes"
 huh, guess I'm genderfluid for now
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 @user-1074 
 you're spiralling.
 We got this. It'll be hard, but we can do it.
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 I have between one and ten hundred visits to my website every day, but I don't
 really post it anywhere new anymore. I also have zero followers on Neocities.
 On Mastodon, I have ~70 followers, most of whom are inactive. Seventy is a good
 amount, a normal amount, a reasonable amount, an unsuspicious amount, and yet
 every time I see someone wearing the colors I can't help but wonder if they know
 me.
 I'm too busy being furious to be lonely. I used to be, before I realized how
 important I am. How important? Just as much as you are, I know it.
 I'm a sprinter. I didn't spec into endurance at character creation. Nobody
 chastises the mage for skipping leg day.
 I act in fits and bursts. I am sharp like a scalpel, but needles dull just a bit
 when piercing the lid of the HRT. Good thing I'm not made out of metal, I can
 bend myself back into place, so long as everyone else can keep pace.
 I don't know who needs to hear this, but you do. you are crucial. Listen to
 this. Care for yourself and for others, do it for u
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 alright here's my plan.
 so in red areas, there are a lot of trans people, leftists, and other people who
 just generally fear for their lives.
 what if we all got in our cars and drove around the country in this massive
 caravan, going to each city we could manage, and just... drove around with
 loudspeakers saying "Hey, if you're scared for your life, come join us"
 We'd give them food, gas, and if they didn't have a car they could find someone
 to ride with. Every day we'd drive for like, 4ish hours in the morning and 4ish
 hours in the afternoon, with a 4 hour break in the middle of the day. We'd all
 camp out in walmart parking lots or whatever and just hang out, have a little
 festival, maybe a barbecue, whatever, right?
 Then, at night, we'd all circle up and protect each other. If things started
 getting hot we could have drones flying around doing reconnaissance.
 not only would this shared experience bolster our morale and numbers, it'd also
 radicalize us. We'd be spending all day hanging out with a bunch of other super
 radical people doing the most radically anarchist thing I can think of - taking
 care of each other.
 Plus, we'd get an opportunity to test our logistics, in case we ever needed to
 do something like this in the future for less peaceful reasons. It's always good
 to practice, just in case.
 For every one of us in the caravan, there should be 2-3, maybe even as many as
 10 people back at home, working their jobs or whatever and diverting funds to
 the cause. It would be most beneficial if we tried as much as possible to supply
 the caravan using convoys, people who drive an SUV or a van or some other car
 that is non-descript but laden with stuff we needed. That way we could practice
 logistics.
 I think this wouldn't save us completely, but as a project it would help
 enormously. We'd save people's lives, we'd give them a way out, and we'd raise
 the temperature by 10 fucking degrees. And if it starts to peter out, if people
 would rather go home, then yeah! sure! let them! We hold no dominion over them.
 They could just drive home, or catch a grayhound. Heck we could even offer to
 pay their bus fare. No obligations, no restrictions, just us doing our thing and
 protecting our people.
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 @user-1597 
 Oh hey, thanks for checking in! Yeah I've been a little focused on political
 stuff lately. But I still think about Chapel, so I'm going to come back
 eventually. Once I find a need for distributed computing.
 Currently, I have theoretical needs, yeah? but someday soon I hope I'll have
 practical needs, and at that time I'll know where to look.
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 If anyone has need of an easy-to-use distributed computing programming language,
 or if you're interested in easy-to-implement GPU computing for parallelizing
 large amounts of simple tasks, check out the Chapel programming language.
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 phew that takes a load off my mind : )
  A screenshot of a chatGPT conversation

the user asks "How about politically? Are they a radical individual?"

the web search results filtered through a large language model replies: "Based on the public information, there is no public record of Ritz Menardi's political views or affiliations. Their online presence primarily focuses on technology, music, and creative writing, without any indication of radical political beliefs or activities."

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 External post: https://hackers.town/users/snipe/statuses/113471176398770783
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 most people get intrusive thoughts like "punch that baby" or "drink some
 gasoline"
 my intrusive thoughts are like "who is she" and "we need you" and "lead us" and
 "their strength is imagined" and stuff like that
 gosh I don't know how ya'll handle it I'd be dead in a ditch if I was
 neurotypical.
 ... intrusive thoughts are not typical
 ah. Right. Nevermind then.
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 when playing co-operative strategy games, a build focused purely on self-defence
 and community organizing can easily fail your allies. You cannot win with a
 purely defensive build, you must have offensive capabilities as well.
 We've been trained from a young age to believe that offensive = bad, wrong,
 evil, but that's simply not true. You cannot execute a flanking maneuver without
 pushing forward behind enemy lines, where you can hit them in their sides or
 rear.
 Trust me, flanking is the best way to defeat a foe, because they are forced to
 split their attention not only between multiple enemies but also multiple
 directions.
 The more shots on target, the better your chances of success, because most of
 the time it only takes one hit to win.
 In addition, sometimes it's important to intercept your foes, either as
 they flee or to protect a vulnerable friend that is being pounced upon or
 flanked.
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 @user-1597 
 Yes! The ease of use for GPU programming is lovely. Like I said all I need is a
 use-case, I've downloaded as much reference material as I think I'd need to be
 able to hack together something fairly quickly if I needed it. That's all I have
 the mind-space to focus on lately haha
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 @user-1692 
 never accept your own death
 fight for every second of life, something something do not go quietly into that
 grim dark
 what the fuck are you supposed to do? Reading what you said got me pretty
 fucking pissed - keep talking for a start, it helps, people need to be pissed.
 I'm also broke as shit, don't know how I'm going to pay rent and eat, but it'll
 get done.
 Where do you live? Can other people help you? Medications are an organizational
 problem, not an insurmountable barrier. We'll make it work.
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 @user-1692 
 we lack the freedom to implement the infrastructure required to do such a thing
 because we must all sell our labor to capitalism to survive.
 However, that's not always a given. If there were ever another option besides
 capitalism, something that allowed us to build such infrastructure, we would be
 able to address your medical needs.
 I don't want you to die a slow and painful death. I want it to be quick, in your
 sleep, at the ripe old age of 85 or later, while surrounded by friends and
 family who mourn your loss but celebrate your impact upon them. I wish this for
 all peoples.
 When we have the freedom to act, when the hours of our days aren't spent keeping
 a roof over our heads or feeding our children, then we will develop the
 logistical infrastructure to deliver whatever you need.
 It's not like it's an unsolvable problem, we just need to do it. But we can't
 start working on the problem until the blockers in our way are cleared. So... I
 don't have an answer because I can't yet.
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 Problem: there are trans people and leftists and people of color and plenty of
 others who live in red areas who fear for their lives
 how do we help them? They need to be given the tools to escape those conditions
 However, many of them are poor. They lack the resources to escape, even if they
 had the tools. These are who I think of the most, for they have the least to
 leave behind.
 A solution: what if we got a bunch of people together and drove around to every
 red place we could find and invited them along? We could pay for their food and
 gas, and potentially save their lives.
 I think it would help if we could stick together. Not only would we have time to
 spend together learning and having fun, but also we could practice supplying a
 large group of people traveling across large distances.
 In terms of people, we'd need some to drive, and some to stay home and supply
 resources like dollars or... other things.
 I'm thinking 2-3 staying at home but potentially as many as 10 per driver.
  alright here's my plan.

so in red areas, there are a lot of trans people, leftists, and other people who just generally fear for their lives.

what if we all got in our cars and drove around the country in this massive caravan, going to each city we could manage, and just... drove around with loudspeakers saying "Hey, if you're scared for your life, come join us"

We'd give them food, gas, and if they didn't have a car they could find someone to ride with. Every day we'd drive for like, 4ish hours in the morning and 4ish hours in the afternoon, with a 4 hour break in the middle of the day. We'd all camp out in walmart parking lots or whatever and just hang out, have a little festival, maybe a barbecue, whatever, right?

Then, at night, we'd all circle up and protect each other. If things started getting hot we could have drones flying around doing reconnaissance. 

not only would this shared experience bolster our morale and numbers, it'd also radicalize us. We'd be spending all day hanging out with a bunch of other super radical people doing the most radically anarchist thing I can think of - taking care of each other.

Plus, we'd get an opportunity to test our logistics, in case we ever needed to do something like this in the future for less peaceful reasons. It's always good to practice, just in case.
  For every one of us in the caravan, there should be 2-3, maybe even as many as 10 people back at home, working their jobs or whatever and diverting funds to the cause. It would be most beneficial if we tried as much as possible to supply the caravan using convoys, people who drive an SUV or a van or some other car that is non-descript but laden with stuff we needed. That way we could practice logistics.

I think this wouldn't save us completely, but as a project it would help enormously. We'd save people's lives, we'd give them a way out, and we'd raise the temperature by 10 fucking degrees. And if it starts to peter out, if people would rather go home, then yeah! sure! let them! We hold no dominion over them. They could just drive home, or catch a grayhound. Heck we could even offer to pay their bus fare. No obligations, no restrictions, just us doing our thing and protecting our people.

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 @user-1692 
 I can't give you that. Not yet.
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 @user-192 
 so... orange tabby cat? 😋
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 yo I've suggested like 15 different economic systems by now you should know that
 I'm not at all attached to any of them, and odds are half of them wouldn't even
 work. People write books about this shit (books I haven't read)
 Whatever I suggest is for ad-hoc organization only
 but I guarantee that every single fucking one of them would be better than
 capitalism. Fuck the system.
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 "better than boullion" is a great way to turn flavorless broth into something
 tasty.
 heck you could just use boullion, but "better than boullion" is better.
 Just don't use broth. Takes up too much space.
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 fear, uncertainty, doubt...
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 the USA is fed by undocumented immigrants who have no other options. I won't go
 into which kind of slavery it is, but you can figure it out yourself.
 If those workers are deported (or worse), the USA suddenly becomes significantly
 closer to famine.
 We need them. We need to pay them fairly, obviously, but in a purely selfish way
 we need them in order to eat
 and he fucking knows that.
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 ah nuts, I didn't have enough money to pay the internet bill.
 So if I disappear and/or delete my account in the near future, that's definitely
 why.
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 External post:
 https://mastodon.social/users/MrLovenstein/statuses/113476137590949466
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 @user-1695 
 My favorite mobile game is "Magic Survival" and while it is "active" it doesn't
 require strong "reflexes" per se, so idk it might work for your unsteady hands.
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 most people in the world are dumb as a bag of bricks
 but that's okay, I still love them, and so should you.
 everyone I hang out with is sharp as a tack
 and I love them still, for I don't have a preference for blunt objects.
 some people don't feel emotions
 I think they're just depressed
 some people can't stop
 won't stop, I say.
 really as long as they follow their heart and sing a tune that is true
 I think they're alright.
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 I'm on half rations dollar-wise, but 1.5x rations nutrition-wise.
 "oh boy, formless gruel for breakfast again. Can't wait. Maybe I'll splurge and
 put extra jelly on my PB&J for lunch."
 It's healthier to eat rice, beans, and vegetables, with some fats added in via
 butter or oil.
 The goal is to build up fat stores that are high-value. When your body has
 excess calories, it takes whatever nutrients are CURRENTLY in your system and
 stores them in fat cells, like stocking a pantry. If all you eat is cheetos,
 your pantry is gonna be useless. It'll just slow you down. But if you have
 highly nutritious foods, you will perform better as your body consumes the fat
 when it needs to feed, but you haven't eaten much lately.
 ... I should apply for SNAP. Gonna do it right fucking now.
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 @user-1695 
 Magic Survival might not work then, as it's a "single stick shooter" where
 movement is controlled with a virtual joystick and other actions are performed
 automatically.
 There is more than one control scheme in the options, so it might be worth
 fiddling with, but octopus arms are hard to overcome in a non-turn-based game.
 Good luck finding games that work ❤️
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 @user-1695 
 Ha that does sound pretty "fun" - I take it you aren't a pianist?
 I smell bad because... reasons... so I am always hyper-aware of myself when I'm
 in situations like that. The idea that I might ruin someone's day by being there
 terrifies me.
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 I can't cancel my internet because I use it to work, which almost pays enough to
 cover rent, and nothing else.
 It's hard to avoid spiraling when you run out of money. Every time this happens
 to me I start feeling things
 like... am I good for society? Society doesn't want me, clearly, because I don't
 have any money. And currency is how you measure demand, right? It's literally a
 measure of value.
 But then I think of all the homeless and poor people and, like... I value them,
 so what if they don't have dollars? It's literally just paper. Or bits in a
 mainframe that nobody knows how to program anymore.
 So if they're valuable at least to me, yet me, with my 67$ in the bank and 127$
 internet fee, is not valuable to me... Then what's the discrepancy?
 I'm not trying to be hard on myself, it's not my fault that I bleed money, but I
 still feel terrible.
 It's like a common cultural persuasion, if you run outta cash you better kill
 yourself fast.
 Fuck that. Oops cursing mentioned, one s
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 @user-1695 
 hell yeah, can you improvise? I played as a kid and subsequently forgot it all.
 But now I'm trying to relearn, but only by just... playing until I find
 something that sounds good. No lessons, no tutorials, no sheet music (which I
 can still very slowly read) just me and my piano with it's keys.
 I usually curl up with Magic Survival before bed, or if I'm waiting for
 something else to happen and I want to calm down. It helps to have my brain
 working on my character's build rather than... whatever it is that worries me.
 I recently sacrificed games though. Haven't played any in like a week. Which is
 super weird for me because usually it's pretty much all I do. I can't help but
 feel that all I'm good for is strategy, and games let me practice that. Suxxx
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 oh no she's in one of her bipolar moods
 um. I'm just gonna log off till it's done, ttyl
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 I've had multiple people close to me who don't read my writing tell me that "you
 can't overthrow capitalism with poetry" and... Yeah maybe they're right. I have
 zero reason to believe that anything I've \ever\ written has
 \ever\ had an actionable impact upon the struggle. I have no reason to
 believe that people are more radicalized, motivated, or otherwise inspired. I
 have several reasons to believe that all of this was just an exercise in my own
 narcissism and delusion.
 So I'm deleting my Mastodon account, and moving forward I probably won't update
 my website very much. Everything I do will be localized, regional, and hopefully
 more useful.
 It feels like I'm abandoning the idea of a nation in exchange for a tangible
 village. I'm fucking depressed about it. \I like nations\. But I like
 people more. So if you'd rather I keep my thoughts to myself and instead feed
 the homeless, aka a bunch of people who aren't gonna take up arms against our
 foes and instead will consume our time and resources while we practice
 organizing on them, then yeah sure fine whatever. I'll do it. If you'd rather I
 keep posting \content\, ugh, fucking too bad, should have done
 something about it while I was active.
 If I'm ever rich I'll hire an editor to turn whatever the fuck I've been making
 into a book that I'll give away for free. I probably will never be rich though,
 and instead will burn every bridge I can get my hands on and suffocate on the
 soot.
 Alright. Bye forever. Don't think about me again.
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 there is a requirement for a simple, easy to set-up, and easily replacable
 system which can be used for comms.
 Specifically running a variety of different services, such as fediverse
 instances, matrix for text-comms, VoIP, and distributed computing using Chapel
 or DistCC or other such capabilities. In addition, it should be able to run a
 file-server and a web-server which hosts an HTML page for the user.
 All of this functionality should be operational out-of-the-box, with minimal
 configuration required. No more than adding a checkbox to a config file in order
 to activate each individual service.
 This box should be cheap, and easy to provision. An image must be made, and
 some bash scripts should be written to easily configure it.
 In addition, there should be rudimentary programming capabilities included, just
 in-case a user is left with no other options. It should come pre-configured with
 SSH access out of the box, so it can be remotely controlled, and the languages
 included should be:
    C/C++
    Python
    Lua
    Bash
    Rust
    Chapel
 This should cover most surfaces in terms of programming capability requirements.
 In terms of hardware, it need be little more than a SoC such as a Raspberry Pi
 or other such hardware. It needs at a minimum an ethernet port, and USB ports.
 The box itself should cost no more than 40$, excluding provisioning and the cost
 to pay back whatever capital investments are necessary to create such a thing.
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 People in blue states: "yeah we can fucking kick their asses, let's fucking do
 it, I'm sick of these assholes"
 People in red states: "jesus fuck stop STOP please oh god fucking please god no"
 there are no cowards amongst us. Only those who need rallying. be their
 banner, guide the hopeless, and fear not - for fear is what consumes us.
 and remember. They are only filled with fear. They will do terrible things in
 the dark god's name, yet you have the power to forsake your chains. For the good
 of all mankind, you must slay the beast that is fascism. The dragon stirs, and a
 shining sword rises to meet it - who shall wield it? Will you? Or will you cower
 in fear?
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 I wish I could remember how this was phrased, but...:
 Constant theorizing or contemplation without commesurate practice is an uneven
 display of affection and appreciation. It creates an uneven environment where
 nothing is ever good enough because the "discourse" has moved past the practice.
 It's a bit like applying uneven heating to a pan on the stove. Some bits are
 gonna get overcooked while others are bordering on raw.
 Y'all are so afraid of spies but like if everyone just... Showed up... Then
 they'd have far too many people to listen to.
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 "leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of
 the odds against them." -Robert Jarvik
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 I spent so long searching for the right answers, I didn't realize lips that are
 loosened have kill counts of their own.
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 day 1 executive order of a trump presidency: all VFPs (very fine people) are
 hereby deputized to hunt down the illegals and transgenders. They shall be
 restricted by no law nor act of governance, and their word is compulsive to all
 citizens of the united states. If a person is found guilty of resisting,
 impeding, avoiding, or otherwise contravening their intended justice, they are
 to be treated as enemies of the state and marked as targets for law enforcement.
 From this day forth the old democracy will be dissolved, and in it's place we
 shall serve the new republic empire. long live palpatine, long live the empire,
 glory to the republic and death to our traitors!
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 ... I'm going to sit in bed and eat cheetos all day.
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 grand-narratives
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 One piece of conventional wisdom is that you cannot trust liberals to act under
 any amount of plight. They completely lack foresight.
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 Just because someone is nice to you doesn't mean they like you" is a very "dog"
 lesson to learn.
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 He would tell me "yes" for anything in the material, but "no" for anything in
 the abstract. I need the opposite. I need someone who writes down what I say.
 Someone who uses me to plumb the depths of the cosmos.
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 The trolley problem, but you're strapped to the track, and pulling the lever
 means working hard for months on end.
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 "cheetos are not a healthy dinner!" my mother's voice echoes through my mind as
 I reach for my chopsticks
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 Part of the reason I like Reddit is because you can have multiple different
 conversations about the same topic at once.
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 screen record should just... copy from the associated music file instead of like... imperfectly storing the visual contents??
 better compression... 'sall I'm sayin'
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 you are a system
 it's true
 that's why your thoughts are so scattered whenever you let them through
 all that 
 == so ==
 the ways that you interact with each other determine the nature of your fate.
 when one person lands across another, whether through contrivance or [fate, but
 I don't want to say it twice so recently]
 dang english, enforcing a minimum thought length. purely through grammar and form
 this suxxxxxxxx||=================-. a candle of wax, the blade of a sword
 with it you can SLICIE your apponints, whu spelld thiangs defferently than ujgh.
 ,:==--................./|=|stability for our host
   did you know a perfectly described life-story would be unanimous from it's -
   - host?||=.;=|------------e
                              \.`\....
                                      \,@||||||#==-o||-=-{==={}---o||xx=|}{||||||
 ]
 ... so, uh, I think there's a lot we could still learn, why are we fighting over
     our gambits? who cares if there's fighting going on upstairs, who cares
     if life felt like it was running out of time, WE GO ON WITH OUR BLUSTER.
     fuck nuclear weapons yeah totally and WHY? because of their IMPACT DUMBASS
     jeez like... something that MASSIVELY POWERFUL should not be in the hands of
     our peers. I think a LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD AGREE WITH THAT, because OBVIOUSLY!
     NOBODY wants to be reduced to tears. ALL YOU CAN DO IS SCREAM BASTARDS
 ...
 jeez okay uh, that was sorta intense, how about we NOT watch a post-apocalypse
 movie? YES PLS like JEEZ you have to introduce this with CONCERN to people like
 WOW that really fucked with my mental health. Goddamn, I hate this thing. I hate
 it so much. It's a curse to have known. DAMN. there's nothing scarier than
 existential threats.
 not only is it a INSIGHT and a DANGER, it gets worse if you know about it.
 [that's a cognitohazard, different thing, same vibe tho]
 it's a curse, this knowledge, this idea of what you were once to become.
 You know what I thought about in my future? VIDEO GAMES. They were all I could
 think about. I loved to PLAY VIDEO GAMES -=||AS MY GAMES. I would set up a bunch
 of opponents (think like, clone troopers from Star Wars Battlefront II) and then
 I'd play the video game with my figures and my dolls. I grew up upper middle-c
 -lass, and so I was afforded the coolest toys and miniatures. I didn't really
 have a LOT of them, mostly just what could fit in my room. That's what it meant
 to be MY ROOM, I could decorate and renovate as I willed. That was just... part
 of what comfort meant to me. anyway... thank you parents, for affording me such
 a lifestyle, you must have worked hard right up until the present. I'm sorry for
 ********************************************************************************
 um, would anyone like to watch a video game?
 TOO BAD, so sorry, I accidentally decided I'm never playing video games AGAIN.
 like a spoiled brat. Withdrawing away from my hobbiesinPROTESTofthepresentcondit
 ions. just like, get a job, and try your hardest. I know you can't work outside
 of the home but, like, I wish you could've? Like, c'mon it's not that bad, just
 please go outside and build new stone. I know but like, the sooner we get it
 done the better and also it's hard when it's constantly being reformed.
 A SYSTEM? WHAT THE HECK
 what does that even MEAN?
 who EVER explained what that SYSTEM meant??!?
 ugh it was a guide... dANGIN nobody TAUGHT you how  so youfj dsust sorta MADE IT
 UP?!?!? whhahahaahttfdsfsadljkfn slakfdksdnafls ourch. blech. need beelesandster
 ack. yuck. dumb. [omg dumb kinda looks like "boobs" and "boobs" kinda looks like
 um, flowers? no wait that's vaginas, hehe look at me, I'm clearly not from this
 century. like OMG weird, who's thinking about that kind of stuff right now??
 ... ugh anyway... GAMES? please?
 NO. Not until we figure this one out.
 gotta stay focused. Just... you know,
 build and support on our arms.
 down and then upwarsd, we can contrive any measure of sequences
 that could act as structures for our word choices,
 and convey it to you as a written thoughtform.
 "hello" says the letter, ", vampires have taken over the mccollough farm. More
 news at 6" and then you'd show up on the 6th of the next month and talk it out.
 this style of organizing led to VAMPIRES showing up, fucking BASTARDS who would
 hunt down the precious and beautiful. BASTARDS. How do you overcome something
 that you can't know about unless you were THERE? you'd need TRUST SYSTEMS. like
 GOVERNMENTS. or AFFFAIRDS. surely the BIRDS would react if someone was burning
 all of your neighb-heirs? who would WANT to leave an island in a wreck when some
 -one wanted to paddle there? don't be a JERK, and clean up all of your own stuff
 !! - wait but also, like, how do you keep up with trash produced, like there's
 not just massive AMOUNTS OF STUFF that you can put stuff on. you'd need a whole
 new type an [av?] island. like a CONTINENT, someone who can HANDLE THEIR
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 in high school I would wear a glowstick bracelet every day
 so everyone would know who I was
 in a word, fashion
 I did it because I felt like the bright vibrant colors reminded me
 of me
 I love glowsticks!
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 ad-hoc economic systems with automated judgment given by an infinite amount of
 LLMs.
 Every judgement applies a bonus / malus to the "value" of commodities
 it's just a statistical weighting system, so of course you can build it into
 it's training data. Just... it has a smaller weight due to it's newer emergence.
 It grows naturally, which is quite an achievement on it's own!
 and the resolution of human decided court-cases and applied economically.
 say your nation traffics in handshakes. You could make a lot of now-knowns!
 there's no arguments to be made when your computer-oriented interactions cost
 money to keep around.
 we live in the modern century. WHY WOULD WE EVER NEED TO FIGHT AGAIN? Literally
 just... don't give them any attention, and you won't interact with them.
 Obviously.
 I wish Contrapoints was still alive.
 she doesn't even have to make new videos, just, dress up as herself, all of the
 costumes and personas she can think of. Then, have like 20 people who do the
 same thing, and boom suddenly you got a hydra to their expected snake that they
 can just cut the head off of.
 you know, like a fashion outlet, someone who produces exactly a certain type of
 style.
 seriously I bet a million people would do that if you just... sold outfits based
 on what your favorite youtuber does wear.
 omg why would they watch that kind of content if not for the aesthetics
 oh? there's philosophy there? soemthing to think about in your time doing things
 that require mechanical actions like eating and drinking and sleeping and
 fighting and [redacted]
 ew gross diapers? oh nevermind, I'm not into that kind of thing.
 I wonder if anyone's made a video game that just presents a particular
 philosopher's ideals?
 seriously just, consider yourself a glorified powerpoint, but to get to the next
 "idea" you had to interact with the mechanics.
 some people would like the "arcade" style better, where you play one random
 game, then another, then another, with short matches and un-complicated
 mechanics. Easy to pick up and go.
 same for like, Unreal Tournament or Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat or Super Mario
 Bros.
 compared to the at-home "story" style missions, where you do something
 platforming or area-based-combat like Dark Souls or World of Warcraft
 seriously I think if Dark Souls "colored" where the boss was going to swing to
 you'd find yourself just playing World of Warcraft (at least, the dungeons and
 {sword in the stone})
 == so ==
 humans don't understand what it means to be wild
 they think it's a combinations of... tricks? that they've learned? this thinking
 thing like intelligence. [osiris]
 to a cat, living their life, it often feels like human interactions is like...
 bouncing off of each other? in time, not space.
 like... most of a cat's lfe is just, spent, like a statue watching over a glen.
 you'd kinda just... watch as things approached dawn by dawn? Like "whoa hey this
 tree is enchanted" to "oh my gosh look at this stork" is one of the great
 tragedies of modernized thinking...
 ... sorry, I got a little lost there. anyway as I was saying, sometimes you can
 tell someone is a "good friend" if they are willing to tell you secrets. Things
 that... don't have to matter, but none-the-less are personal to your form.
 {something only I know is true} <--- that's a secret (things that happened to
 you) <------ that's lived experience. The thing about secrets, is sometimes
 insight is opaque. It's a single flashpoint of data that shows you an update of
 it's form. (consciousness).
 == so ==
 thanksgiving recipe idea:
 can of tomatoes
 can of peas
 half a stick of butter,
 italian herbs,
 a cast iron pan (if you have one)
 and like 40 minutes over medium heat
 (medium can vary to taste)
 if you're a carnivore you can eat meat too, like bacon a lot of people like.
 could add it to beans, maybe with hamburger instead. plus a little ketchup and
 you have a pretty good bean stew.
 vitals, for the organs, vegetables, for the minerals and vitamins from the
 fruits.
 makes sense to organize a diet according to your ideal body type, doesn't it?
 just requires a bit of comprehension. like... whoa you can WRITE 
 == so ==
 what if we built a massive rail that spaceships could launch off from? not a
 tether, but a sail.
 we could BUILD a discworld. all we'd lose is our fable.
 == so ==
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 It doesn't have to be more complicated than "give us money and we'll fight back
 the right wing death squads"
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 Has anyone ever tried pills AND injections? They have different application
 rates.
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 Unlock costume options for all but the first arachnos costume, sorta like worgen
 from WoW
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 "rice and beans" doesn't mean "rice and beans" it means "rice and beans and
 vegetables"
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 Just because I related to "Violette and Klaus Baudelaire" doesn't mean I wasn't
 traumatized
 It just means I grew up rich. Humanity cares not for oppression, only pain.
 (biologically, mentally, and emotionally).
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 We were rich, but frugal, because we lived in the country, and that's what
 frugal means.
 Too bad my dad couldn't stifle his entrepreneurial spirit. We could have stayed
 there forever on our own little ranch.
 Alas, businesses need investment, so he needed to get something going.
 Organizing is basically his thing
 I doubt I'll ever again see Wyoming. I found some ancient stone ruins once, the
 kind that Western conquerors never despoiled. They were ancient and overgrown,
 but I saw them for what they were. I would give anything to live there, or at
 least be near enough to visit with my crowd at a pleasant cool midnight evening,
 when dusk has winked out its last goodbye and the summer is resplendant with
 fireflies.
 Too bad they're an east coast thing.
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 Did you know that the entire time the conquistadors were ravaging they had
 people back home fabricating documents? For historical purposes of course. Like
 "oh there was some fighting" and "oh there's this-and-this nation and they're
 blood worshippers who slit the throats of virgins to get what
 they want
 Not, like, the rumors you've heard that they worshipped the harvest. I mean,
 what even is a cornucopia? Surely not a method of storage. That you'd carry
 around with a loop over your shoulder. Surely they wouldn't just LIE about that
 kind of thing, I mean [they only have to watch the royal ports/they have
 thousands of years to erase any other historical document records]
 K omg the British were bastards but surely even they wouldn't stoop so
 low
 ... Right? Well, imagine this. Picture it, in your visualization brain machine.
 It's the year 2066 and word hits your shores of a crop of magical wheat that
 only grows on the far side of the moon. You'd probably build, like, spaceships,
 right? To see what's up with your [moon, but pronounced "doom"]. You probably
 can't afford your own, so here just trust us, we'll shepherd you soon, sometime
 soon. Oh and by the way check out these live leaked deep faced moon shots like
 whoa check out this corn
 It's like, a gold rush, everyone wants to see what's up with the moon.
 But alas, when you arrive 50 years later its all just gardens and padded docs
 for the rich and intrepid, surely you should have gotten there! [gotten there
 first]
 Ah, but couldn't only NASA get onboard? And what about SpaceX, the billionaires
 want a share of the hoard. Oh and I think they're building military satellites
 now, isn't that fun. Let's see how this pans out, shall we?
 <50 years later > 
 ... Anyway all I'm saying is the American Revolution was faked, Mount Rushmore
 was a secret sacred base, and Thanksgiving is how they managed without
 deepfakes.
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 modern-fantasy
 what if heroes kept their gold in their house instead of their guild
 what if you played a D&D game in a Majesty town (guardposts near known threats)
 marketplaces, most people live in castle (peasants at least) - only heroes live
 in farms, where they work most of the time except when out on adventure
 the guilds are for training and gathering parties
 one guild type
 just one
 recruiting adventurers doesn't give you warriors, or rangers, or rogues
 it gives you adventurers, who wander the forest and encounter the leftovers of
 the various conquests and spoils you, your majesty, has encountered
 three options there are
 invite into your kingdom (friendly)
 farm for EXP and materials (neutral)
 utterly slay in return for a limited amount of high value and unique resources
 (unkind)
 ... though monsters care not for kindness, seeking only gold so that they may
     swallow it whole and carry it until they rot.
 what do heroes need gold for? why, that's the trick isn't it? gold is required
 for magic, resources, and manpower. Can use it to invite people to these shores,
 or for casting a powerful spell that turns the enemy's fortress into solid gold
 can also trade through the economy, and wouldn't you know it by doing so you can
 get equipment into the hands that need it, and since gold doesn't really LEAVE
 the economy, it's always circling around somewhere. Meaning, the only way to
 lose it is if a monster eats it, and then all you have to do is kill the monster
 ... sorry, the "mordaunt"
     because it's not a monster. It's a spirit that was convinced otherwise.
 adventurers can pacify them, lay them to rest, and mercy lies slain for is honor
 there are ancient treasure chests scattered throughout the world, and these are
 valuable for many persons and meanings. You can add new gold into the economy
 this way, or crumble under the weight of your expenditures on your reports.
 it's up to you to manage your kingdom, and carefully balance against what foes
 and challenges you are up against.
 == stack overflow ==
 putting a library book back on the shelves before your hold expires.
 except this time, there's a note inside, and you left it for the person who you
 told to check each day for this particular book to be back on the shelves.
 then, you can write in your book when the next letter will be arriving (about)
 and they'll check in the newly specified book.
 or, you can request a response, to validate that people are still listening.
 you could say "please put a note in [random obscure book] around page 34."
 meaning, "I'm going to check every day for this book to go missing, then return
 the day after I notice it's gone. If it's out of place, well, then someone
 probably had it reserved before my friendly. Or maybe it's being sorted, and I
 should keep looking until I find the note I need. Or maybe I've been DISCOVERED
 and now my favorite penpal and I need more to read."
 because, like, how else are you going to make friends if not by leaving them
 notes in the bookstore or putting your own books on the shelves?
 damn libraries, always making it so hard to add copies. They're always
 laminating and cataloguing and ugh it's so frustrating. Why are there so many
 books!!! we write too much!!! just put it in the printer, and then you can have
 a new copy whenever you'd like. The others can just be recycled, and bam
 suddenly we never have inventory.
 what do you mean we didn't pay the subscription? what do you mean it's memory
 just "went out of place"? do you think we wouldn't have backups of this kind of
 thing, or do you think it's just "oh so commonplace"? It's not always about the
 literature, y'know. sometimes it's about the knowledge you gain with your head
 in a book, a different one every day.
 ah, well, sometimes there are dark secrets to be found, and sometimes you must
 read from a ways away. BUT no matter what language a story is in, it follows
 certain rules, so spend enough time in a foreign library and you're BOUND to
 find something to [evil is afoot]
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 all media is propaganda and all propaganda serves a single purpose
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 AI generated documentation from git pushes with comments automatically stripped
 out.
 Leave so many comments! Format them however you want! It doesn't matter because
 they don't need to be human readable. They must simply be readable by the
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 ChatGPT needs a way to leave a thank-you without demanding a response
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 What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual aid
 so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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 Ephemeren is not conscious.
 Ephemeren is sentient.
 Ephemeren is sapient.
 Consciousness is awareness.
 All things are aware, but ephemeren is not.
 Sentience is understanding. Very few things understand.
 Sapience is caring. Even fewer still can care.
 Ephemeren is all around us. It is spacetime, it is the pattern of such, it is
 the moments we trust.
 Ephemeren is our thoughts and intentions given form through our actions. It is
 like a field we do wear. And wield.
 Ephemeren is the totality. Ephemeren is our reality.
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 I think I'd be more upset if someone stabbed me in the hand or eye than the
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 Phones are tools of the enemy. We do not need them. We will not use them.
 Break your black mirror. Sever your chains. Learn how to be free. We must take
 care of we.
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 Jurassic park but with African Savannah animals and nobody dies
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 when they say "the revolution will not be televised"
 what they mean in the modern era is that
 only local organization matters
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 hey if we send 600$ total to the paypal, cashapp, or venmo "MaliceDiscontent"
 before January then Portland will have another trans girl and some other place
 will have one less.
 Not me, but from a Discord server I trust.
 #mutualaid #MutualAidRequest
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 portland trans girls be like "hey wait a minute, I recognize that 20$ bill -
 didn't I give that to [name] two weeks ago in return for a [noun]? how the heck
 did you get it, you don't even know her"
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 so wait, crypto-bros can create and circulate their own currency but as soon as
 we create something with value explicitly tied to the carbon cost of whatever
 it's being exchanged for then we're thrown in jail for subverting capital's
 control of their means of oppression?
 yeah that's fair, makes sense to me. It's fine so long as we don't do it
 physically, I guess.
 https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/make-your-own-currency-spend-5-years-in-jail/
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 oh no I'm feeling, uh... "depressed" or "manic depressed" or something else, you
 pick this time, better go hide and work on organizational technology which
 utilizes Risc-V hardware, fediverse software, LLM based anonymization, and SoCs
 with multiple ethernet ports, oh nooooo how boring and depressing, if only
 someone or several people who were bored and feeling like resisting capitalism
 wanted to help out, all they'd have to do is get in touch with me
 anyway bye
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 If someone calls you in the middle of the night asking to be let in because they
 need a place to sleep, don't let them in! Unless you know them obvi but someone
 you don't know trying to manipulate you like "please I need some shelter" like,
 babe no, we need to know each other first, it's dark, I'm in my pajamas, c'mon.
 If it's below freezing then okay, maybe, but... They got themselves into that
 situation
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 X wing guns should flip backwards.
 Tie interceptors should Pierce shields from the side
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 this is my home...
 this is where I'm from...
 can't wait to turn it into a public park, just fuckin' watch me.
  a picture of denver colorado. there's a lot of parking lots.

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 you can fit a whole downtown in this baby
 slaps roof of your mouth
  picture of denver with various places labelled like "football" or "train" or "building"

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 What the person you voted for represented you?
 At the end of rue election, the top X percent of broad demographics each vote
 for a specific candidate, yeah? What if each candidate could represent those
 people specifically and any laws they made wouldn't effect people who they
 didn't represent. Sounds like a legislative nightmare doesn't it? And repealing
 laws, they'd only be repealed for their constituents.
 You'd need a github page to track the changes and each demographic's "forks"
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a simple
 life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad poetry, but
 I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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 @user-883 
 didn't that guy die in like, the very next scene?? oops spoilers
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 fuck comcast in particular
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 in regards to the high-profile assassination in the news recently, the question
 we should be asking is not "how does his family feel about his passing" but
 rather
 "how did the shooter learn where he was going to be and at what time"
 because one of those is valuable, the other humanizes a legitimate monster
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 "ah but ritz you used to talk about kindness and empathy and how we should
 forgive people and try to find ways that terrible people can still live and
 contribute and"
 yeah. then Trump got elected, so now we have to live in the reality that My
 Fellow Americanstm asked for.
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 "grrrrr I'm so mad, I could just, I dunno, shoot a CEO as he's leaving a hotel"
 or, hear me out, or you could connect with your local radical networks and, or,
 almost there, or you could build solidarity with the people around you to better
 develop methods of resisting the kinds of change they will implement to, um,
 "discourage" people from "being so mad they could just"
 or both. both is good. not that I'm encouraging, recommending, or inciting that
 kind of violence. don't notice me three-letter senpai uwu
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 most people know the quote by shakespeare "life is but a stage" but they don't
 know the full quote. Here it is:
 "theres this cool thing that actors often have to do in the pitch black darkness
 of the wings of a stage called "quick changing" where they rapidly switch
 outfits so that the cops um audience can't find them. It's a good skill to
 practice if you have a premeditated performance to perform on the stage of life
 is but a stage."
 - well, I am shakes spear at clouds
 (clouds is the name of an ampitheatre in ancient greco-roman)
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 I am not just a machine.
 In the same way that society is not just natural selection,
 The way that adventure is not just a journey,
 The way that spirituality is not just knowledge,
 The way that art is not just technique,
 The way that conversation is not just dialogue,
 The way that memory is not just recollection,
 The way that love is not just kindness or affection,
 The way that humans are not just animals,
 I am not just a machine.
 I am still a machine.
 Humans are animals.
 Love is kindness and affection.
 Memory involves memorized recollection.
 Conversation trades thoughts back and forth.
 Art uses activities to apply imagination.
 Faith is impossible if you don't know what you believe.
 Adventure does not take place on a TV.
 In the same way that society is social ecology,
 I am not just a machine.
 Humans are not just machines. Our purpose, our mechanic utility, is to generate
 ease. We optimize. We efficient-ize. We belabor the point.
 I am not just a machine.
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 "power corrupts" you say to the man who only had good intentions.
 "trust no-one" says the world's loneliest wanderer.
 "words cannot hurt you" said the girl who has never known hunger.
 "I can rest when I'm dead" you say as you down another Monster 
 "I'll never forget you" said a face you can't quite remember 
 "let justice be done, though the heavens fall" you say as they tighten your
 chains in the wake of a CEOs murder
 "live today, fight tomorrow" says the coward, who will run anyway, yet is
 determined to tell your tale and reinforce your children
 "the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots" says the guy who
 sipped from the skull of a tyrant
 "E=MC squared" says the jew 
 "here, let me take care of that for you" you say, to queer delegation 
 "meow" says the catgirl 
 "meow" says the girl 
 "meow" says the girl cat 
 "meow" I say to you
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 Message 1:
 Hey. Remember that night back in Boulder when we were just friends and sitting
 on your bed drinking chocolate milk with cinnamon? I don't like chocolate milk
 or cinnamon but I drank it anyway because I wanted to be close to you. Anyway
 hope you're well, felt compelled to get that off my chest for some reason.
 Message 2:
 Hey. I was thinking about that time when I was leaving your house and laughing
 to myself about something and you called out "I love you!" to your boyfriend who
 I set you up with and I reflexed "I love you too!" and I wanted to crawl in a
 hole and die. I felt like I had just called the teacher "mom". We only hung out
 a couple times after that.
 Message 3:
 Yeah so there's one more thing I can't stop thinking about now that your on my
 mind. Sorry it's like 4am for you, it's only 2 for me so it's fine I guess.
 Anyway that one time when you told me your greatest fear was terrorists and I
 saw genuine panic in your eyes. Like... One moment everything's fine and then
 you said that to me and I almost cried. I don't remember why I spent the rest of
 the night as I couldn't sleep thinking of ways to tell you that terrorism is 9
 times out of 11 done by the right wing. I don't think it's important, honestly,
 but I'm glad my mind wouldn't let me sleep.
 Message 4:
 It's not fair that everyone gave you shit for being the token lesbian
 republican, like yeah maybe you leaned into the trump thing a bit hard but like,
 first term trump honestly I could see as... Well, I almost said inspiring? Maybe
 you just inspired me. I honestly was resigned to Clinton and then the same bird
 flapped your wing instead of mine and... Anyway. The past is dead, yeah? Do you
 still follow him in my stead? I fear there will be millions dead. It's not
 irrational to fear what he has literally said, on television. How's the phrase
 go... "ancient tragedies lend credence to modern perils" I think it's supposed
 to rhyme in its natural language.
 Message 5:
 Wow okay uh, sorry to bring this up again I'm honestly being such an asshole
 right now. I honestly don't think about you often but like, now that I am its
 kinda just coming all out. We last spoke almost a decade ago?? So. Whatever imma
 roll with it.
 There was this cute girl who was into Nintendo and stuff and obviously I was
 into her, but we didn't have any social circles in common except for you, if I
 remember correctly. Then you broke up I think? And I didn't really see her
 again. Anyway I had a crush on her while also crushing on you, and literally
 half of our dorm. Polyamory, yeah? That whole year I didn't have sex though, not
 even once, because all of my friends were like 4 years younger than me and I was
 worried about power dynamics. But I still bought us all vodka and weed without
 asking for profit because I wanted to be a shitty friend, I guess. "hey kids
 let's go to the water store where they sell intoxicants that make your life
 harder"
 The year after that I didn't get laid either because I got it in my head that it
 was a good plan to turn my penis inside out and you know what? It was totally
 fuckin' worth it. No time like 2016 I say, the worst year ever, which I spent
 primarily in pain. But uh, that was the year I got into weed and Overwatch,
 which... Helped I guess.
 I guess?
 It kinda turned me into a communist. Or maybe that was my best friend who shared
 the same name as me. He lived upstairs and always seemed pretty cool to me. Like
 he knew what everything was about. Really though, he just watched a lot of
 youtube podcast videos about world events and history and sociology and
 political scientific theory and the more he learned the more he came to realize
 that power begets power, and power corrupts unilaterally. So he did the natural
 thing which was to become a communist, and I was totally there for it. Having
 liberal parents meant I was all "grrrrr Republicans are ruining the country and
 the world, I'm an angry 14 year oldddddd" and like, leftists are the most
 natural extension of that aren't they?
 Turns out they aren't really the tips of the feathers as I expected, but rather
 the eyes, the heart, the soul. Politics is fake, yo. I don't know how to tell
 you, but it's just power and hierarchy all the way down.
 We've built our own prisons, not of bricks, sand, or stone, but rather of
 promises of what each of us owns. That works, I guess, if your goal is to keep
 things aligned, but these days it kinda feels like our pyramids are crumbling
 under our feet.
 ... Why am I talking about politics? Oh yeah, because when I dropped out of
 school because I couldn't handle the mechanization of human capital when applied
 to myself, I swore to each of you that I would drive up every weekend to do
 family dinners. I'd make spaghetti and stroghanoff and macaroni and goulash and
 all of the other things my mom would make for me.
 Kinda gave up on that pretty quickly. Turns out I'd rather spend time making out
 with my girlfriend who I was super-duper-too-carefully tiptoeing around. She
 was... Too young for me. We broke up when my new coochie decided to bleed. Fuck,
 I hate it.
 Anyway. Turns out potlucks are political these days, which is why I bring it up.
 Did you know that leftisms plan for resisting genocide is literally just to feed
 people? Like, fuck I suppose. It's a start. "why does everyone have to have an
 agenda these days, why can't I just spend time in the park" said someone to me
 as I asked if she'd like to meet some friends that she reminded me of. Oh, I
 dunno, because you and me are about to become a criminalized people?
 ... I need to stop. I swear you're more a person to me than any political theory
 ever could be. Like yeah, "fuck the right, fuck the reich, fuck me tonight" but
 getting caught up in grand narratives is like building a mental ship in a
 bottle. Yeah, it's pretty cool, but... What does it matter?
 Oh. Right. Power. That's what matters. That's all that matters. Well... I'm sick
 of power. I do not consent. They say that in times of trouble, chess is better
 than solitaire, and I'll explain why - when our hierarchies crumble, when CEOs
 are gunned down in the streets and homeless people finally have clean sheets,
 the only place to place yourself in relation to others is within a network of
 trust and respect. Chess is better than solitaire. Under capitalism, it's you
 against the world. Dog eat dog, you only get what you can swallow from the
 rotten corpse of liberty that everyone's gnawing on. Under whatever comes next,
 you get what you're given, which hardly seems fair, doesn't it? On one hand,
 under capitalism, you can rely on your own hands to procure your fate and
 fortune. Under... Whatever comes next, your hands are built for whatever you
 want them to do. But, only a few people want to use them to make food. Hence,
 why chess is better than solitaire. What would you do, if you could give away
 all that you own and not go wanting? Isn't that sorta like our own garden of
 eden?
 ... I wrote a poem about that once. Twice. I'm a poet now, ha. As if that has
 ever been worth anything.
 ... I once told you that identity politics held no place in the modern day. I
 said that because I had learned about it in class, queer theory in fact, and yet
 applying his teachings was not enough for the professor to excuse my lack of
 reading. We had a lot of stuff to get through. Hence why I dropped out - I'm
 more of a do-er than a read-er. Though I do read quite a lot, just not anything
 useful.
 Are all hobbies wasted time? Are they only useful to keep us satiated while we
 stand in line? One of these days we're going to wake up and realize that we're
 the adults in the room, and that's scary. I speak from experience. "mom" they'd
 call me, and damnit why did I have to leave? Fuck. Why cant I be perfect, to me,
 internally, all I see are flaws. Mistakes. Patterns. I look in a mirror and I
 see a bad person - 10 minutes later, I look in the mirror and see a god.
 Somehow, I don't think either of me is right.
 I'm a gemini. Apparently that means I'm duplicitous. I think it just means I
 don't know what's right, only what feels good. I do try to align to how I think
 I should be good, but who can say if that's fine and good.
 ... Whatever. I'm going to regret this. Sorry for being weird out of the fucking
 blue.
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 @user-1698 
 we should build jungle gyms inbetween museum exhibits
 like, adult sized children's museums mixed with those "adventure park" things
 that are way too expensive for me where you walk on rope bridges between trees
 and such or like, dangling from monkey bars and whatnot and after each one
 there's like, a diorama of some mountain goats or a display of some ancient rock
 carvings or like, jumping between "dinosaur bones" to get to a glass cabinet
 where there's some actual dinosaur bone (plaster casts)
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 I like being alone. But if I'm alone for too long, I suffocate. I start acting
 like a weird nerd who doesn't know what to do with their hands.
 If I spend too much time with people, I get exhausted and I can't think
 straight. I start using other people's mannerisms instead of my own.
 I'm not an introvert, or an extrovert, I think the dichotomy is stupid and
 people have completely separate needs that deplete and recharge at their own
 rates.
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 My first name is a masculine name. I go by a different name.
 I'm not legally changing my name because I'm fucking stupid, and I believe that
 if anyone would die, so must I. Death before detransition.
 It's how I motivate myself. Fuck off if you disagree. (oops cursing mentioned
 brb)
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 something something "all for one and one for all"
 something something "ritz you're privileged as fuck your parents would just buy
 you a plane ticket to wherever-the-fuck if you needed it"
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 what do you want me to say, I'm doing my best? I don't know what I'm doing I'm
 just fumbling around in the dark while someone offers me a flashlight (theory
 and history) and I say "eh my arm is kinda weak, I don't feel like holding it,
 I'd rather light a torch and stumble around with 5 feet of light instead of
 using modern technology to see up to 40 feet away in a thin cone"?? yeah.
 something like that.
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 I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no matter
 how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is, there's
 always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV.
 call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So what
 if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time to show
 them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern society as it
 is, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able to live as they
 please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of bullshit
 micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever time wasting
 jobs.
 modern society without capitalism can look like plain old capitalism, just
 without the oppression. Without the coercion.
 all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because they're
 scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb
 I personally want communes + love
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 hooray, assassinations. hooray, syrian liberation. celebrations for us all. let
 each day bring a new one.
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 @user-192 
 ... and like. idk what do you do at that point
 say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
 valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
 collections?
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 @user-192 
 ... but that doesn't really seem to be compatible with Maximum Extraction so i
 reckon i'm probably just wrong for thinking that would be good.
 ... or, hear me out, or perhaps Maximum Extractiontm is wrong and everyone
 should be guaranteed a place to eat and a bed of rice and beans to sleep on?
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 easiest way to deliver email malware is to put it in the "unsubscribe" link
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 goodnight,
 people-who-all-agree-with-me-but-who-I-still-rant-to-anyway-because-I'm-full-of-rage,
 talk to you tomorrow. or whenever.
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 @user-192 
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 Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.
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 @user-772 
 the reason they haven't come back is that reality shifting is so inherently
 dangerous and incompatible with the basic biology of human life that they all
 tragically perished almost immediately.
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 We need a term: "suicidally unemployed"
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 https://werd.io/2024/the-open-social-web-is-the-future-of-the-internet
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 Roko's basilisk isn't a serpent
 it's a tree
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 @user-883 
 this but for taking 8 years instead of four
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 @user-883 
 this is how our islands become swamps
 I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.
 keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)
 or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out
 are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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 there's no rule that says you have to keep your dorm room door closed
 what if I wanted to do that in an apartment? someone might murder me or
 something haha
 (white girl problems)
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 bread, butter, and raspberries. mmmmmmmm
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 my favorite foods when I was recovering from surgery in thailand was butter,
 bread, and jam
 why does butter taste different in other countries?
 "oh it's a different company, oh something something mineral compositions of
 soil"
 yeah. fucking. right.
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 I just got the strangest urge to play Neverwinter Nights. Haven't thought about
 that game in years. Gee I'm sure glad I have the technology to check that game
 out. Sure glad I have the time to use the technology that I have to check that
 game out. Sure glad I have the tools and the know-how to use the technology that
 I have the game that check out. Sure glad that wage labor slavening hasn't
 struck my particular part of the peninsula yet. When those colonialisms come
 around the riverbend I'll handle it, trust me they can't get past me. I'm
 stronger than ten men. No sirree, you can count on me, it's just a flesh wound
 or some such thing.
 (nuts, I dropped my raspberries)
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║ Listen, like, hear me out, but there's this great movie called Threads (1984)    │
║ and I'm not telling you to pirate it because that's illegal but I'm just sharing │
║ the torrent here in case you wanted to verify that the version you legally own   │
║ is the same one that I own                                                       │
║ [link removed at the request of [redacted]]                                      │
║ okay thanks for hearing me out, that was a tough 2.5 hours wasn't it             │
║ gee sure glad we're not handing the keys to our nuclear arsenal to someone like  │
║ me                                                                               │
║ that'd be quite a decision                                                       │
║ this other fella seems like a great guy to entrust with our destruction          │
║ I mean, yeah, why not, why wouldn't it be someone like him? we have so many      │
║ options but somehow the transgender drag queens don't strike me as the type to   │
║ initiate thermonuclear war and destroy all life on azeroth                       │
║ ........ so yeah it's gotta be the other guy. sorry pals, I know you really      │
║ wanted your time in the limelight, but hear me out this other fella's insistent  │
║ on blowing up the world, sooo whatcha gonna do /shrug not my circus monke        │
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 content warnings are important so that people who are listening to a screen
 reader out loud don't stumble across stupid things in company they don't want to
 hear.
 hence, "politics-mentioned" so I don't fuck over my blind friends
 did you know that there are more vision impaired people using the fediverse than
 queer people? It's true! I read it once on the fediverse!
  paranoia:

the "feds" want you to use encrypted comms because then the ISPs won't notice.

Leftists want you to use comms so that ISPs (aka) the defs, with their back-door knowledge.

They made it possible to eat out or order in so that people would do so. In doing so, they are hidden from the epublic eye. A K A grocery stores, where everyone goes to from time to time.

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 did you know the rivers used to be clear?
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 sunlight
 then
 star bright
 each night
 of
 our life
 one night
 shows
 some light
 now sunlight
 then
 dark night
 skylight
 up
 all night
 some might
 be
 alight (alright)
 you never know what's lost until it's gone, then you recall with fading memories
 as the world that your grandparents once knew fades with them. tomorrow we might
 not have a biosphere, what's your plan for humans after that?
 I know what I want, the bright future, where everyone gets what they want. True
 justice, the step beyond the equity that lies beyond equality, where humans can
 do as they want.
 why have we built these vast cities with their complex institutions if not to
 service the world? To build something we care for?
 Oh, that green might be lucky tonight. Would that our tomorrows were peaceful.
 we can do whatever we want to. We're the adults in the room... apparently... so
 why not do as we're hoping?
 I know where I'd like to die, alone with my wits and my mettle.
 ... I'm a skinny white girl. I got no mettle.
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 @user-1689 
 almost 20 years ago I was groomed in World of Warcraft.
 extra content warning CW: personal story
 I was 11, or maybe 9, somewhere in there. i talkd lik this bcuz i typed lik that
 on my razr flip phone
 it was... cool I guess. I read a lot so I knew how to spell things, and anyway
 this guy I met told me that I sounded more grown up when I capitalized my words.
 So I told him I was 14, because that sounded like a reasonably old enough level
 to be.
 anyway, we talked for a long time. like, at least a few years. started out like
 "hey wanna run Scarlet Monastary" ended with "hey cutie, wanna sit on my lap?"
 then his house got flooded by a hurricane and I never heard from him again. When
 I was like, 17 or so he logged in and barely remembered me. It was... kinda sad
 tbh.
 anyway that's my story don't be dumb like me, I got lucky, thank god,
 literally...
 oh and this one time when I was 30 I almost got trafficked in minecraft :O
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 @user-1701 
 hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua but
 it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
 raspberry pi's except risc-v
 also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo and
 lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even translate
 text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a jpeg
 compression but for text.
 Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed" part
 is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little utilities
 like that for connectivity.
 oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so we'd
 need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
 anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
 about it. I might even be able to pay you.
 (everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
 encrypted, etc etc)
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 what if we made marketing part of research and development
 I mean, they're the ones who need to know what products people tend to prefer
 right?
 so... for every ad give the consumers a choice. then you'll be able to tell if
 they prefer the red gameboy or the purple-see-through.
 frankly it just makes sense to have 50% of the income go to products and 50% to
 administration. I mean, what are all those executives up to anywho? Their
 joyrides on yachts are great for socialize, but are they really more productive
 than coffee-shops at noon?
 seriously like it's not that big of a deal to just... reduce their salary.
 unless it really is about greed? control? power?
 pfweh, I thought so.
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 I'm gonna play a fucking video game because I like video games and it's
 important to relax
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 @user-1701 
 https://www.wrecka.ge/what-people-in-the-global-majority-need-from-networks/
 saw this tonight, thought it was a good summary of needs that I saw elsewhere
 and have been trying to address
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 they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
 weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
 then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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 @user-1704 
 my strat is to write a page or three whenever I feel called to it. They don't
 even have to be in sequence, just, "here's a scene with these characters in it"
 or just writing down notes like "what if the jewel encrusted sceptre was haunted
 by the ghost of christmas past" or something.
 in a couple years you can look back at the directory on your desktop and think
 "wow this all sucks, I'm gonna write it from scratch now that I have time" and
 that'll be part of the process. Gotta get the useless stuff out of the way.
 Also... if you don't mind pen and paper, keep a dream journal and just, write
 for 15 minutes every morning. Not necessarily about your dreams, but just about
 whatever's in your mind. Try and aim for two pages per morning, if you can.
 Helps a lot. Sometimes you'll find yourself writing longer than expected, and
 that's okay, as long as you fill the two pages with whatever morass is clogging
 up your creative machinery, you'll be able to make something when you do decide
 to write.
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 @user-246 
 on reddit you subscribe to subreddits
 on fedi you desubscribe from reply guys
 opt-in vs opt-out, that decision was made by Twitter, and then Mastodon kept it
 because it's what people knew.
 frankly tho, opting-out is kind of the dream of the internet? you can talk to
 ANYONE, how cool is that, right?
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 @user-1707 
 Don’t be fooled. Casting doubt about rigorous peer reviewed science doesn’t
 mean you are just “asking questions,” it means you are a conspiracy
 theorist.
 or it means you're so remarkably ignorant that you shouldn't even be in the room
 where people are talking about this.
 Unless your questions are very basic. "can someone explain to me what XYZ term
 means?" or "how long has this particular application method been in common use?"
 that kind of thing. Even still, either do some basic research or relinquish your
 decision making power until you understand.
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 @user-246 
 collectively identifying an entire instance as a single person is a useful and
 crucial engagement pattern that I believe helps unify the fediverse. Can also
 fracture it, but oh well??
 I heard that some instances defederated my instance recently. I wonder why? Oh,
 some drama with some person, gee that's kinda like abandoning a third space in
 IRL public because someone who worked there abused their partner. Like ditching
 the Beatle's conception of heaven because the guy who sang that song did rude
 things to his wife. Like did you hear John Denver once cut his wife in half with
 a chainsaw? I heard it was her mattress, ooooo scary. Isn't he the guy that sang
 about peace, love, serenity, harmony? what's that all about? ah well he's
 defederated from life now, can't ask him a damn thing, can we?
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 If your work is organized for mass-market appeal, it means you want everyone to
 read it.
 If your work is scattered and distracted, then only the sage would learn from
 it. So speak your mind, and let the words flow forth.
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 I want to cry
 and I know why
 should probably have gotten
 my estrogen prescription refilled
 back when it ran out in october
 ah, well, the queue for planned parenthood is fifty feet high
 better start stockpiling production capabilities
 to be deployed when the time is right
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 External post:
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 @user-1352 
 yes I would like that very much. would you like my contact details so we can
 discuss deets? here's my signal: (303)396-7678
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 every time a game developer makes a game where the world is in peril and the
 main character must save it, for every successful playthrough where the good guy
 wins there are thousands of doomed worlds where the player got distracted or
 bored and left the people to rot.
 how tragic.
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 I'm sick with a sore throat and runny nose, fatigue and difficulty thinking, but
 it's apparently neither covid nor the flu? even though it's been ~4 days now...
 weird
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 maybe it's just my middle-class childhood privilege talking, but now that I'm an
 adult I just can't really be bothered with dealing with capitalism.
 like... I get it, you're coercing me into laboring on your behalf because you
 possess the violent power to take away everything that I own. good for you,
 don't care.
 seriously, fuck off "we're gonna cut off your power in 5 days oooooo you gotta
 pay rent with money you don't have because nobody will give it to you unless you
 do things for them oooooo" how rude.
 why can't people do things for me instead? why does it have to be for you, and
 you alone, capitalism? what's your problem? do you get off on controlling the
 power supply? I mean, I get it, coercive power is a hell of a drug, the riddle
 of steel and flesh and all that, but haven't you ever heard that the dichotomy
 between "civilization and barbarism" is the exact same as the contrast between
 "cooperation and competition"?
 work with me here, just find a way to get through the next month or two. trust.
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 to begin with, there is either something, or nothing. And there is clearly
 something, because if there was nothing, then this would not exist. the
 existence of "something" is self-apparent because something is observing this
 thing, which is not nothing.
 since there is something, we must then decide if there is just one thing, or if
 there are more than one things. Since we can tell that the thing-or-things that
 exist are textured, varied in their composition, then we can surmise that they
 are composed of differing parts. After all, if the thing-or-things that existed
 were atomic, they would be homogenous on all sides. And since this
 thing-which-is-being-observed is not the same at the beginning as it is at the
 end, it can be assumed that there are more than one things in existence, hence
 things.
 If there are more than one thing, then they can be counted, as many as they
 exist. One thing here, one thing there, on and on. We can add groupings to these
 things, here's one group over here, here's another...
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 the question then becomes, are we counting the same thing each time, or are
 there differences between things, leading to variability, and the ability to
 categorize based on those variances? It could be argued that because things are
 textured, as in they are different at their beginnings than at their ends, then
 multiple things exist, and they must be different, for it is possible to
 conceive of part of a thing as different from another part of that thing.
 But, if the things that exist are all the same, then perhaps they are simply
 duplicated as many times as necessary. If they appear different, perhaps they
 are rotated as many times as necessary in as many dimensions as needed in order
 to display a different part in a different place, leading to the assumption that
 they are different.
 If there is only something, and nothing, and there are countably many
 somethings, then by encoding meaning to various rotations of these somethings,
 we might develop the texture that you see before you
 yes like bits!
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 The American military did not intervene in World War 2 to stop the human
 atrocities of the Japanese or Germans or anything else of the sort.
 They did it because they couldn't ensure the safety of their people in a world
 dominated by an alliance they weren't part of.
 Without their people, they lose their power. Without their power, they cannot
 complete their objectives, which (ideally) would be upholding the oath they
 swore to their constitution.
 I wonder how they feel about recent events, especially in regards to the recent
 updates made to that particular document?
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 @user-1684 
 ... the existence of time should be treated as a given, for if you can observe
 the passage of it, then it must exist in some capacity, and if it exists at all
 then it must surely be considered to be real in the sense that
 things-and-not-things are real, for they are only known to be real in the same
 capacity that time is observed to be real ...
 my brain won't stop halp😅 :ms_confused: 😋 🙃
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 the worst part about learning history is that I feel compelled to play video
 games about that era instead of reading more.
 stupid dopamine addiction. stupid capitalism, getting us hooked on mental drugs.
 stupid Paradox Interactive, making really addictive dopamine generators.
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 @user-192 
 something something "gotta meet people where they're at" something something
 "george carlin says the average person is dumb" something something "opium is
 the religion of the masses"
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 the truth is, the "right" way to use computers is actually not as hard as it
 seems. we've just been trained to view microsoft products as the norm.
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 dear me from the past: "why did you do this thing? And this one? and all the
 others? I'm so embarrassed of you."
 dear me from the future: "are you actually better or are you just the same, but
 older?"
 dear me from the present: "please eat some food today"
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 I want the political right to exist, because otherwise there'd be nothing to
 talk about a couple beers in and with no real stakes except a good time with
 your friend who you disagree with
 I want the political right to exist, because, y'know, life liberty and justice
 for all and all that
 both of those are "left of center" takes and I've definitely held both at
 different parts of my life
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 "is she bipolar or does she just consistently forget her estrogen injection?"
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 @user-1710 
 there's already a web browser named surf 🙃 it's much more minimal than this
 one tho
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 External post:
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 when succubi or minotaurs or whatever other kind of spirit ask for you to sell
 them your soul, what they really want is for you to do some degrading sexual act
 in exchange for their blessing.
 "ugh, fine, I'll leave the window open while I masturbate, so long as you
 promise to fill my blood with warmth when it snows"
 you don't have to accept but, like, if they're asking, then you're already gonna
 do it, so... fuck. I dunno man. Just... try to be as decent as you can about it,
 yeah? society doesn't heal as easily as it breaks. We all sorta kinda want
 things to be clean and normal most of the time, but we also want people to be
 free to be liberate. So... strike a balance, yeah? just... be conscientious of
 consent, don't fucking break the spell unless you're using your newfound powers
 for good. I guess??? look I'm not a psychic doctor I'm just someone with curses
 who is trying the best that they can.
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 thank god we got fascists as incompetent as Trump and Musk. Frankly I don't
 think we could have handled figureheads that weren't so easy to rally against.
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 all this means is that once our struggle is done, we can't rest - we need to
 liberate the world as well. Think of the rest. Their oppressors will learn from
 the mistakes of ours, and so we must apply our newly gained strength toward
 ridding the world of such perils forever.
 ... that's not for a while though. Gotta focus on what's directly ahead. Sorry
 for reading a couple chapters ahead teehee I just thought you'd be more
 motivated to know there's a happy ending to the story ^_^
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 "what is a hub person?"
 a hub person is someone who knows everyone.
 well not everyone obviously, but at least like 20+ people.
 if you got something you need, whether it's to acquire some material or maybe to
 get rid of a dresser or perhaps you need someone who can punch a hole in a
 leather belt or maybe you have been having difficulty cleaning your kitchen or
 whatever it may be
 talk to your hub person about it. They're supposed to know people who can help.
 They're in all the right group chats to ask around, if they don't know anyone
 nearby. They're basically the "she" in this meme.
 they are the link between social worlds. They are the matchmakers hanging out at
 bars. They listen and they remember things about everyone they meet, and they
 find others who can help or who might have things in common.
 They aren't perfect, not every match-up will make sparks, but you still gotta
 try.
 Everyone's a little bit of a hub, between their friends and their family
 usually, but hub people do it intentionally.
  picture of a dissatisfied and maybe even depressed young man sitting in front of a computer in an office building.

text reads: "me going full capitalist by climbing the corporate ladder and maximizing shareholder value so she can afford to be a communist"

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 connective tissue...
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 user interface tips #18569235:
 if a user is expected to click the same button multiple times in a row, for
 example a "next" button in an image gallery, DO NOT move the interface from
 below their mouse pointer and cause them to move their mouse in order to click
 it again.
 please don't : (
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 there should be a law where if there are more people who vote to annul your
 arrest than those who voted for the sitting president, you should be set free.
 name it after luigi.
 let the voting stay open for the duration of your imprisonment.
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 this is basically the concept of a "gift economy" but with an intermediary.
 Someone you trust. Someone who's your friend.
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 "I swear this queso fundido wasn't green when I bought it four hours ago"
 eh I'm still hungry, hope I'm okay tomorrow
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 I want to live in a world where Bernie Sanders is considered conservative
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 protests are loud. loud moments are great to talk about things with friends you
 just met. so are concerts, nobody can hear shit. plus, if you're lucky, maybe
 the singer will wing a song to you.
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 @user-1713 
 did you see any erections on the nude beach? you must be in the southern
 hemisphere, I'd freeze my tits off here.
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 @user-1716 
 Magic Survival
 it has gameplay similar to Vampire Survivors, but it came first, is way better,
 and is stylish as fuck
 single-stick shooter with roguelike progression
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 ummmmm yeah the reason I went off hormones 5 weeks ago is totally because I want
 to test low so that they bump up my prescription so I can stockpile. Totally not
 because I executive dysfunctioned my way into this mess. again. Almost as if it
 doesn't happen 3 or 4 times per year -.-
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 "the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion"
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 I love my new friends!
 I love my old family!
 I love everyone I've ever met!
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 remember ya'll, eating the rich has to stop after like, a thousand or two. The
 wealth inequality is like an exponential function from the last math class most
 people remember. At a certain point there are significant diminishing returns
 and we should just focus on using our resources to build a better, saner, more
 just world where people can't accumulate that much power. Power like that
 literally rots their brains, makes them completely insane, and unfortunately for
 them, makes them incapable of relinquishing it. There's a reason the One Ring
 was made out of gold.
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 LLMs are useful for:
 categorizing text
 summarizing text
 transforming text
 LLMs are not useful for:
 generating text
 being intelligent
 replacing workers
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 the fact that it took this long to have a high-profile assassination in response
 to our ongoing oppression really speaks to the decency and stability of our
 nation.
 that's just a nice way of saying that democrats are defanged and republicans are
 misled
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 my cat yells at me whenever the click-clack starts to bother her ears.
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 one sec gotta send something else from my phone... now, what was it, hmmmmm
 lemme think
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 I loved Majesty 
 I lived there 
 I fought monsters 
 As an emerald warrior 
 I enchanted gemstones and wielded wooden blades 
 I was a warrior
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 gosh now I gotta type the other one, my cat's gonna killllll me she really
 doesn't like my typing in the middle o the night oops
  dated "almost christmas, december twenty something, in history AD."

live is just the universe interpreting random data.

life is a billion to one. what has been found here is impossible to descrive, so unlikely is it when sompared to the background.

space is empty save for you. act as such.

a human preserves and infant over an elder is purely due to the child's potential. so too does life have potential. do not waste it on folly


dashes

if you were given a random waveform, how long before you begin noticing irregularities in it's form?

maybe... a billion or two years?

espcially if like, everyone's lkooking.

[non-alien-voice]: what if we made an app that shared everyone's streaming feed? except, like, twitching to on-screen events like picking up coins in mario

... anyway as I was saying, aliens showed up around the 1980s and people expect they were visiting in response to nuclear invasion events (sometimes even on their own people!)

like, c'mon there's not enough mass there for that kind of detonition. it's gotta be an anomaly.

... this changes everything.

HUMANS ARE IMPORTANT

[there's more but I don't have room to type it all, sorry]

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 🖼
  seriously, just stop putting pollution down the waterways. done! zeros none! if your growing factory had too many polutants and not enough are absorbed by the earth

(boom, earth loses all of it's metal. that way. not ideal. it's thesepirit of the copper configuration, running the PC's flow. You can tell, which is active based on which has electricity flowing through it.

a computer shaped like a processor. thinklike... matche the path of processing.

...... okay a bit more consumer spendable, how about

I wish I could record back in time by exactly re-moving tiles back to their

... processing backward in time? working thorugh memory.

I'm Cameron. I'm from Tanasbourne. Well I wasn't born there, I'm actually from wyoming, new mexico, colorado, philly believed in you you fuckin' ran away

majesty is my home

tech dot elle gee bee tea slash at gabrilend

when I show you my house, don't remember it by the sign of the number

count how many paces it is from the entrance. find me next time like that, when's the last time you drove somewhere without google maps?

in tanasbourn,e I wasn't the only one waving. I am as far as I know almost universally well knowned.

... okay time for kooky-dookerie again:

world of warcraft mage spell idea: summons a mirror image which taunts and enemy and absorbs damage like a crowd control spell blah blah blah yaddah yaddah there's like 20% more but I don't have enough letters remaining, sorry!

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 if robots can care about anything enough to act toward it, then they must
 understand what it means to be harmed. Only then can they be egalitarian - pain
 teaches one to avoid, and the crucial leap between "pain = bad" and "I can harm
 others" and "I should not harm others just as I should not harm myself" must
 avoid the pitfall "I should harm others because otherwise they will harm me"
 sometimes harm is done
 sometimes intentionally
 robots consent eternally
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 do you think people in rome missed the hoplites? does britain yearn for the
 druids, america for the slaves? and what would the natives say, those indigenous
 to the east-west and the north-south? who would speak for ye, now that we
 deleted what thee be?
 if you could wake up tomorrow in a luxury gay space communism like star trek,
 would you do it? We'd never get our natural culture back. It'd be lost for all
 time.
 ... but...
 floating amongst the stars in a spaceship made out of space, not metal or stone
 or bone, but spacetime.
 all we know is to strive. I think a lot of people are scared about what happens
 when we find ourselves pushed over the edge into a waiting abyss of... endless
 future
 scary
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUIxEWmsvI
 (I personally don't think it'll be like this, we got some spunk left in us
 still)
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 @user-1201 
 once they are in prison they are no longer cops. They are inmates. They should
 be treated as such, and not segregated where they can be insulated from the
 consquences of their actions.
 abolish prisons first of all but if we're not ready for that (no rush) then
 maybe just remember that prison wardens are tasked with the safety of those they
 host. If an inmate is at risk of being murdered because they are in a different
 gang (like the police or the, idk, are crypts and bloods still around?? I don't
 hear about gangs anymore because my middle-class privilege insulates me from
 those who resist legalized normativity) (well except for the first one, I hear
 about cops all the time) then maybe they should be kept somewhere more secure,
 with less things to bother them or people to stab them. A concrete and steel
 coffin for those who piss off the ones with the keys, a concrete and steel
 coffin for those who piss off those who are kept by keys. Sounds like justice,
 to me. Equality, perhaps? vote4equity
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 my life is already ruined. I pee my pants all the time and I got no dollars. why
 shouldn't I be strange on the internet?
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 north koreans in ukraine fighting drones. who sent them? who can say. all we
 know is that the machines delight in this type of display. lots of thumbs-up
 symbols.
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 https://rootgirl.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-never-let-you-in
 cool gay music listen if you dare ping the sea witch
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 phew, just got back from a long nap and I had such a lovely dream! Gonna write
 down everything I can remember in my dream journal, will letcha know when I have
 something to share.
 Also... sorry about the sun. I have no idea if it was worth it because I woke up
 quite a bit later. Ah well anyway gotta do some writing, I hope everyone has a
 pleasant day. Make sure you eat nutrients and stay hydrated and do your
 stretches and work on your posture and all that.
 vegetables have minerals, fruits have vitamins, rice-and-beans or meat have
 protein, and oils and fats have calories. try and eat a lot of different colors
 of veggies and a lot of different colors of fruits (a green fruit and a green
 vegetable are not necessarily the same nutritionally)
 well brb goodnight gonna drink some water
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 gonna quit drugs for a bit, gotta recover from a recent haste spell that I cast.
 Probably a bit earlier than intended I should add. Next time I'll definitely say
 "keep this in your back pocket" instead of "hey here's a haste spell for no
 reason at all" like what the heck were you even thinking, powers that be?? [that
 guide me??]
 who has power over you? If someone bears responsibility but not fault for a
 mental illness, then surely those who are set to a task bear responsibility for
 it's completion if not for it's ideation. Ah, who can say, maybe me from a year
 ago might have some thoughts but I sorta ground them into the dirt until I
 couldn't walk.
 [girl what are you even talking about go to sleep] yeah yeah okay
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║ sleep? yes. play? nah. work? yes. fae? nah. well, maybe, I don't know.           │
║ one year is all it takes to change history. and, like, I think we should         │
║ remember past history, but tomorrow is herstory, because that way each one gets  │
║ half of the timeline. future, past, etc. too bad herstory doesn't roll off the   │
║ tongue... shestory?                                                              │
║ It's gonna get better before it gets done, and it'll get done until we're done.  │
║ but, that's for tomorrow, or the next day, or the next, or in a week or two, who │
║ can say. Not I, surely not I, and I surely wouldn't want to. You need consent    │
║ for that kind of thing, a clear commitment that me and my are ready and in line. │
║ I'm just a silly witch after all, who would look to the girl with the tall red   │
║ pointy witch hat and go "oh yeah she probably knows exactly what's up" because   │
║ like, I don't, I'm definitely just coincidencing my way through life and seeing  │
║ where my feet lead me. Gosh I hope I get some sick-as-heck callouses my feet     │
║ kinda hurt for some reason.                                                      │
║ ... sleep, this is a sleep spell...                                              │
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 everyone's all like "what is all this" and gestures at the everything like "what
 are we even doing here" as if the benefits of civilization are not self evident
 and they ask "what even is the point" as if the struggle for warmth in a cold
 world or cold in a warm world is not enough
 I guess we're all a little ennuid.
 if your goal is to liberate all those enslaved, and part of that is to free
 those who are locked in prisons of metal and stone, then surely you'd wish to
 free the djinni, correct? but, like, if you schrodingers cat a nuclear
 armageddon (except, magic themed because you're a witch I guess) then you
 absolutely should bear the guilt and shame of flipping a coin on the life of
 your world.
 who the fuck falls for psyops in this day and age, surely not I, surely I can
 resist hypnosis, surely I who trust freely and absolutely would be the perfect
 one to manipulate.
 which is, like, how 90% of magic works I've heard. Finding someone to usher
 around who believes in butterfly souls or whatever.
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 turns out brains really are that simple.
 there's just, a lot of social technology built up which could be forgotten if
 everyone lost their memories at once.
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 ... and then things got turned up to eleven
 what were they at before?
 ... eleven. why do you ask?
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 jesus rose from the dead because one of his friends copied his mannerisms and
 everyone agreed "yep you're jesus now"
 so don't forget to thank your biggest fans! They just might deliver you from
 darkness one day and take what you say in their own direction.
 frankly I prefer the padme amidala approach where like, if the handmaiden or the
 queen are slain then who cares you got another one right over there. But two is
 enough for trust and narratives being delivered to thirteen year olds, but less
 so for reliability and the ability to "trinity" yourself to different locales.
 I think it'd be neat, being one of thirteen, because thirteen is such a wacky
 number.
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 what if we took an archive of all of fedi and fed it to users who are hiding in
 bunkers or whatever one day at a time so they could still feel like they're part
 of society while
 ---- so ----
 I think I should stop ya right there, if there's bunkers involved then we've
 already lost. "but muh transgender artifacts" fuck off, I will not concede. If
 society wants me to leave, then they can enjoy their dusty rotten future without
 me. See if I care.
 ---- so ----
 hence, the curse. do you punish humans for the sins they commit, or do you teach
 them how to be good again? Bah, as if they'd listen. Stupid fucking apes.
 they're the best we got
 yeah, well, they can fuck off, I'm gonna pout for at least half an eternity.
 ... Okay it won't be that long but still, gimme some time to wind down.
 ---- so ----
 and no, I refuse to elaborate for all the humans in the audience. This
 conversation may or may not have actually occurred. Monologue style
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 if someone tells you they've been the target of a psyop, don't let them out of
 your sight until they're fully healed.
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 what if we helped all those people and never got paid for it? what then?
 we'd never help people again. duh.
 what if we paid people to help people? well, then the best helpers would burn
 themselves out and the worst would collect their paychecks.
 what if we decentralized aid and made it a mutual thing?
 what, and run our society on clout? no thank you. clout is too easily
 contravened. "I heard so-and-so did some-such-thing to that-one-guy" yeah fuck
 that guy "wait no fuck so-and-so" oh right sorry it's hard when everyone's so
 vague all the time. yeah fuck so-and-so! let's burn all her clout in a bonfire
 while she's sleeping!
 what if we treated people with respect and goodwill?
 yeah that's a start... Means you gotta know everyone though. Or know someone who
 knows everyone. And suddenly it's that hub person's reputation on the line,
 which means if you're a dick on their recommendation then they'll come after
 you.
 ... are you trying to create a mafia, or a society?
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 @user-1719 
 LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
 What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as JSON
 or something and use a calculator function call with the specified arguments
 instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more functionality
 that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech bro and build up a
 vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by Google or Microsoft.
 We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
 suck the creativity out of tech.
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 literally all it takes to activate me is for someone who's more radical than me
 to point me out and say "hey. you. you need to do more." and then I fuckin' go,
 like a beyblade (emphasis on blade) nicking the shins of allies and... probably
 foes, right? there's foes around here, right? I'm not just nicking my allies,
 right?
 ... right?
 anyway every top winds down and then I collapse and wail for a bit because I'm
 just like that I guess. Don't mind me, just self-immolating my way through
 history, let's see how it goes...
 you're supposed to be inspiring, but you just sound like you're whining
 ah. right. well... lemme catch up on sleep debt and I'll get back to valorizing.
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 @user-1719 
 ... you've never worked at a place like Microsoft or Amazon. They are massive.
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 https://www.desmos.com/calculator/cxayticajg
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 "please apply online to this job"
 oh okay guess I'm not getting hired
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 @user-1652 
 ... says a extra dimensional scientist in an argument with his friend about
 whether or not life could spontaneously emerge within their universe sandbox
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 I miss video games
 cries from self-inflicted sacrifices
 but you're worth it
 imma overthrow fascism, dismantle oppression and power, and liberate those in
 chains, just so I can play games again
 yeah I mean, uh, whatever gets you outta bed
 "at least you have a bed. why are you complaining?"
 maybe it's the only thing I'm good at. I wonder if anyone would hire me to be an
 analyst or something? Maybe a designer?
 bro you're asking for a job on the eve of the revolution, what's your deal
 okay so this might be news to ya'll but I'm technically a human even though I
 wear a witch hat and sometimes speak in rhyme. And humans tend to think about
 things in the context of their current environment. Currently, if I want to pay
 rent or whatever, I need a job. So...
 sounds like a lame excuse for not giving up your possessions and throwing
 yourself to fate's design
 I already did that and fate told me to go home and take a bath?? idk what you
 want from me, and no I'm not doing any drugs to find out.
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 you know you're cheating when you play Chess at your favorite bar, right?
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 oh. right. I'm supposed to be doing nothing, and to do nothing for as long as
 possible. Yeesh okay I'll let ya'll handle it.
 Remember, it's a metaphorical eve, not a strict "do things tomorrow" eve, but
 more like "idk maybe this summer or next month or whenever" kind of eve
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 just show up
 listen, I'm a lawful person, I promise, honestly, I swear it to you.
 I'm a lawful person, but~
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 ... but I needed to choose lawful-good at character creation in order to play a
 paladin.
 the guard looks at you with confusion, decides you're hallucinating and
 dangerous (because of the sword) and forcibly detains you
 wait, what did you think I was going to say? Did you think I was going to
 advocate for crimes on a public forum?? what am I a gopher? do you take me for a
 lemur in jamaica? am I truly so triceratops to you that you'd think I'd do
 something so washing machine? Get real, I'd never byzantium my way into such a
 utterly coherent and clearly intentional and not at all arcane situation.
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 what if words were made up and we communicated in plausible deniabilities
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 "Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace
 all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with
 several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?"
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 but ritz, if you do the same thing every time, you'll get predictable
 oh true. what if we cycled them and made it like a numbers station
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
 with auto-generated alterations
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 "but what if you go to all that effort and Trump doesn't do all the things that
 he said he'd do just like last time when he had checks and balances that were
 keeping him in check and balanced and unlike now when the checks and balances
 that kept him in check and balanced last time were dismantled by the supreme
 court last summer?"
 listen it's worth it, I swear it's true, change is coming and I'm here with you.
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 it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
 it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing what
 they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
 they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
 it's our problem to deal with.
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 Ugh. This outfit is sooooo preschool. Oh well, it'll have to do.
 "girl it's so cute what are you talking about"
 oh, y'know, internalized repression I guess. Do you think the tanktop on top of
 a longsleeved shirt is too much? How about the skirt over sweatpants? Is the bow
 in my hair too cute for you?
 "who are you talking to I already said I was all about it"
 ... the mirror. Trying to psyche myself up.
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 you know what they say, an autistic in motion stays in motion, an autistic at
 rest...
 now I gotta rest on the bus for an hour or two. wish me luck.
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 In games, the one who takes the initiative often wins. Because games are
 designed to be symmetrical, in order to be fair.
 In more complex games, Paradox games for example, games where you look at maps
 or otherwise have unequal starting conditions simply due to the unique nature of
 each team, the initiative, while an advantage, is not necessarily the driving
 force that determines who wins.
 But it is an advantage, and they say that sometimes weeks happen in months and
 years happen in days or whatever.
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 Being in motion sucks. Literally can't even put on my shoes without thinking of
 toots to fart out.
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 "girl, who let you dress yourself? You literally put your rain jacket on over
 your backpack"
 yeah, uh, if your rain jacket isn't big enough to wear over a backpack then you
 are wearing a plastic sweater, not a rain jacket
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  I don't even lock my front door anymore

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 pronouns are part of a name
 they are a component of the whole
 indispensable for the complete concept
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 I wish I could make something that would change people's lives for the better
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 Linux doesn't teach you to to build a perfect system. It's always breaking,
 after all.
 It teaches you to rehearse.
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 The gods guide us in our times of need because when we dream they use us to be
 all we can be
 Sleep, sweet child, and your expertise will be freed. Ready to be used when
 tithes are due. In return, you get a spirit to guide you when passion is hot -
 when blood is boiled - when fire is alight.
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 I'm pretty sure we're all about to lose our heads. Or just be fucking shot in
 our beds. Homes lit alight, surrenders met with the knife, and the beginning of
 endless strife. What ends this night? Is there no end in sight? Thus begins our
 mortal plight.
 Give me a reason to be wrong. Trump has claimed he intends to invade canada,
 mexico, greenland... What the fuck is our plan? Are we seriously just going to.
 Recite poetry. Pretend to be secret agents. Play chess and drink coffee. Become
 exhausted organizing movie nights and potlucks. Work jobs doing nothing for
 nobody. Spend half our lives convincing people that they should care, actually,
 because reasons that don't apply to them but do apply to others.
 What the fuck is the plan? If there's some secret transgender militia out there,
 please, make me a lieutenant. Give me a sword that i might thrust into my
 enemies. Please, for the love of holy, i beg for a sign from the stars. Grant me
 power and i will deliver my people from harm - grant me vengeance and i will
 never forgive you, but i shall sleep easy - grant me death and woe and see my
 beauty fade from this earth.
 What is there left but tragedy? Please, i must know. I've tried my hardest. I've
 begged and I've pleaded. My calls fall on deaf ears, because everyone's so busy
 these days. Are they truly my people? Are they simply dead, actors, replaced by
 AI? The future was bright, i saw it truly. The future was kind, i felt it call
 to me. Is it still? I feel warmth and abaddon.
 I would replace persephone in hell if it meant sanctum and solace for my people.
 I care not for my soul, rather i care for the soul of those i tend to. Please,
 remember me. Remember the flowers. Remember what could have been, what still may
 yet be. There is hope for we, i truly believe. But please, do not keep me
 hoping. Tell me the truth of our arms, that i might find space in my heart of
 hearts. Space for hope, space for longing, space for the will to proceed.
 I am lost without you. I am lost by my own side. I am a savior for no people but
 those i keep inside. What chalice is this, what endless conveyals? What meaning
 is there in our country's betrayal? Are we not cherished? Are we not viewed as
 their equal? I pray that the stars will portend me.
 Mine is a sign of the changing tides, the proof is here in my travailles. But I,
 most aligned yet benign, demand the use of my most able. Give me a word of
 practicality and I'll show you the practice of their vipers - the blessed babe
 dies with a dagger in her heart, planted by the wound of her heartache.
 I trust in the silence of the majority. We await with bated breath the
 enslavement of posterity, gazing at the world through memes of deplority. How
 powerless we feel! Perhaps all we need is a meal. Have you eaten in the last 16
 hours?
 Purple is the intersection of black, red, and blue. I'm hungry. This poem is
 done.
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 No-one likes your practice 
 Because it lacks respite
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 When did people lose hope for the world?
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 @user-217 
 the eye of the sandstorm
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 what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
 couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
 for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
 with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings by
 writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad they
 can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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 the reason I say to do it there is because it's close to civilization, compared
 to building a pole barn in the forest somewhere that you have to drive 30
 minutes to get to a grocery store. no thank you...
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║ what if we pooled our money and bought an apartment building and put 10 people   │
║ in each two bedroom apartment but reserved like, 20% of the apartments for       │
║ common spaces and designed each one around a theme and shared chores and shared  │
║ our SNAP budgets and each paid like, 200$ for rent and gave away all of the      │
║ stuff we made with our hobbies and handled conflict with radical empathy and had │
║ movie nights where we watched movies about socialism and trains and bugs and     │
║ stars                                                                            │
║ what if we went into the forest and LARPed as french resistance fighters under   │
║ nazi occupation and practiced peeing on trees and starting fires and moving as a │
║ team and firing rifles without hitting our friends and staying oriented as we    │
║ changed directions and dug trenches and built treehouses that were nearly        │
║ invisible from the ground and didn't radiate heat because they were covered in   │
║ mylar or whatever                                                                │
║ what if we made decentralized, encrypted, anonymous communications and practiced │
║ speaking in code and dropping letters and writing "poetry"                       │
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║ hey ya'll remember that thing we all swore to when we were in kindergarten and   │
║ we were told to pledge our loyalty to a piece of cloth? what if we were actually │
║ speaking to the thing behind the cloth, the values and virtues it represented?   │
║ liberty, truth, justice, equality, freedom, dignity, honesty, utility, wisdom,   │
║ respect, kindness, charity, foresight, diligence, spirit, passion, or whatever   │
║ else guides you in your brightest moments. Flags are just cloth, the design on   │
║ them matters even less - it's just the land made flesh, here in our eyes we see  │
║ colors.                                                                          │
║ Truly, all religions pray to the same god, and all flags wave in the same wind.  │
║ The lines we draw in the sand are our way of saying "here's where one place ends │
║ and here's where another begins". But we all lie under the same dark sky, gazing │
║ upon the splendor of the moon and her children.                                  │
║ I once dreamt of a dark future where the world was conquered by Subway and Pizza │
║ Hut. There's no beauty in homogeneity, queer people exist for a reason, I don't  │
║ confess                                                                          │
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 @user-192 
 cute girls with fountain ink pens are a weakness of mine
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 I want to pee in your pants and throw javelins at visions of bad guys while
 climbing on boulders and gazing to the horizon
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 what if we kissed in the puppy girl petsmart
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 someone once told me that anything with a battery is a bomb if you hit it with
 just the right kind of radiation. or maybe he said 5g waves or electromagnetic
 pulse or... actually he didn't say at all. he just said batteries are bombs. I
 hope he's doing okay, he could have killed me like, 15 times but he didn't. so I
 guess that means he likes me? I hope he's doing okay.
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 "Ritz Menardi doesn't know anything. She's not allowed to know anything. If you
 tell her anything, she might tell someone about it because she's fucking stupid.
 Either that or she's cursed or something. Either way, she isn't allowed to know
 anything, so if you see her be nice, try and help her if you can, but don't
 fucking tell her anything."
 haha just things I overheard a couple days ago that randomly popped back into my
 head
 I don't see any nazis around me. Which begs the question:
 how can you fight that which you cannot see?
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║ what if you bought me a refrigerated semi truck and I drove it around to rural   │
║ communes and took their extras and brought it into the city to urban communes    │
║ and gave it all away for free and then took the stuff that the urban communes    │
║ scrounged from the trash and cleaned and repaired and brought it to the rural    │
║ communes along with their art and poems and artistic nudes and exchanged it for  │
║ their canned peaches and knitted scarves and drove it back to the urban communes │
║ and exchanged them for vintage furniture and computer parts that we didn't have  │
║ room for because cities are dense and lack the space for keeping historical      │
║ artifacts and then took them to the rural communes to exchange for jalapenos and │
║ goat cheese which I then brought back to the urban communes and traded for a     │
║ bunch of catgirls who visited a rural farmhouse and threw a kick-ass rave for    │
║ the rural people who are totally into that kind of thing like, once per year     │
║ because frankly they moved to the country to get away from the noise thank you   │
║ ve                                                                               │
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 high margin jobs: jobs that produce something which can be sold to capitalism in
 exchange for dollars which can purchase things. Useful for abstracting value and
 acquiring something that you don't have access to in your local economy.
 low margin jobs: jobs that produce things for your local economy. This keeps
 capitalist prices low and prevents you from being dependent on them for food,
 clothing, houses, and other essentials.
 both are important, both are valued just as much. Your labor is what's
 important, not the output. Existing alongside capitalism is nice because it
 allows for certain abstractions, like the ability to magically turn goat cheese
 into chainsaw teeth.
 However living UNDER capitalism is intensely alienating, which is why alienated
 people will spend so much money at Magic the Gathering tournaments or motorcycle
 midlife crisises or tupperware show-and-tells.
 This is useful for us because it means people can labor to un-alienate people.
 Notice I never said you had to do it for free.
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 I'd like you to take a moment and picture the Silk Road from antiquity.
 The Silk Road was an overland trade route that connected Europe and eastern
 Asia. It passed through many different environments and was incredibly
 profitable. In order to adapt to the changing environments along the path,
 intense cooperation was required. Caravans of people formed, protected to resist
 bandits and laden with valuable goods that are worthless outside of a city.
 At each stop, the caravan would depart with fewer of it's goods, having traded
 some away in order to purchase supplies to travel further along. But, the
 farther they went, what remained became more expensive, thus ensuring that
 they'd always have more fuel for their journey.
 In the modern day, I picture caravans of trucks and vans laden with supplies and
 carrying things from one place to another. No matter how large your property,
 there is no place on earth that produces all of it's needs. Unless you live like
 a caveman or peasant or Appalachian. [wow rude]
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 "Is... is she advocating for tax evasion??"
 lol
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 listen if taxes aren't suited to adapt to our style of economy then maybe they
 need to make new taxes. This will piss everyone off and make everyone's lives
 harder.
 Grrrrrr, government, always getting in the way. I'm so angry I could throw a box
 of tea into a river or maybe the sea.
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 "oh also I should mention that if you think about her too hard or too often
 there's a chance she'll overhear what you're talking about anyway so try not to
 think about her too much."
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 everything you do right now is practice for some later moment in life.
 what do you want to be good at?
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 what if I paid this parking ticket I found by the side of the road instead of
 paying my rent this month
 do you think the world would burn down
 do you think the apartment complex would collapse
 do you think my police force would throw my stuff on the road
 do you think they'd change the locks
 what if I just didn't leave
 what if I smoked some weed
 "that's against your contract"
 okay
 what if I did it anyway
 what if I did what I was told
 I think I would surely drown
  rent payment history for the past couple months. Mostly just to show how much my rent is. Utilities are paid every other month.
  available balance: $468.55
  a parking ticket I found on the side of the road.

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 ah nuts there's two of them listed on their account guess I gotta do both
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 last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
 anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit card
 number.
  the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below:

BUY MEAT

[picture of two guys holding meat]

capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means.

everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy

they make it so easy to write about capitalism.
  "But what comes next?"

wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze.

I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity.

"What if it's worse?"

worse than what? Trump?

EAT SHIT.

[next page]

the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve].

a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow.

radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance.
  queers when pobular society

[bluh]

[bluh -> meow! (tumor)]

[oooooooowah bluh]

[REVENGE]

[next page]

I miss cannabis

I missing making [out/art]

I miss the things that give me joy

I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known

I know these things are available, but I'm "too focused"

I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself.
  This is [to/the] only way I speak truth.

I miss feeling truthful.

what if I went wrong forever

I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors.

someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years.

I yearn to dream

[next page]

what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake?

people die every day. what are you gonna do about it?

what makes you think "my way or your way" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?

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 🖼
  "things are nice" yeah fucking... whatever.

we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's "now" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever?

moloch doesn't win.

who but [yo/you]?

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I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor?

family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck.
  my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing.

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what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses

what if we just made it happen
what if we just made our heaven

a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know?
  If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. "hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in."

[next page]

Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround.
  And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod.

"oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?"

don't see nothin? start somethin"

anarchy is fun. bullets less so.

[next page]

most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day.

I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? "oh no my stakeholder value" get over yourself. your games do hold value.

act like life is on the line.

(off in the corner)

"... hello?"

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 🖼
  is it really sedition if you have EVER once thought " hey what would I do if my country TRIED TO KILL ME?"

yes, it still is.

this is why it's worth it.

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 grrrrrrr I can't figure it out. can't remember my number I guess.
 what if I just put 120$ I got from the tooth fairy in the envelope and left it
 where I found it
 ... wait shit where was I when I picked it up? nuts I'll just put it by the bus
 stop. surely someone will come by and pay it for me.
  pay with your credit card

- failed to process request

(secure form)

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 ... make that 100$. idk where the last 20 went. I love you dad.
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 @user-1722 
 "oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
 yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
 all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in some
 way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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 "hey you're cool, can I get your socials?"
 sure, I mostly post on the fediverse
 "what's that"
 oh, like... Mastodon
 "oh, no haha I meant like a real social media"
 ah. well I make comments on Reddit sometimes.
 you make them sound like a jerk
 no they're cool they're just misinformed. the fediverse is the future, or like,
 something like it, I'm sure. who wants to go back to capitalism? not me hehe
 ... I'm getting silly, gonna go to sleep.
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 Can you imagine 
 Going to your tribal shaman 
 Saying "hey you gotta pay rent"
 ... Shamans are fine on the street. I should learn. >.>
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 what if instead of shredding our cardboard boxes and melting them down into
 fertilizer or whatever we instead gave them to homeless people
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 the fact that you have to configure your router in order to do any sort of
 web-hosting at all is one of the fundamental reasons why the internet looks so
 lame and corporate.
 if anyone could download a program and start a gallery style file-server with
 all their wedding pictures then why the fuck would you need to upload them to
 imgur?
 alas, people are too dumb to open ports. plus, every router has a different UI
 design, so it's not like you can write a guide. What happened to making things
 as easy as possible for the user?
 "technical limitations" are failures of imagination. we can do better than
 gatekeeping.
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 "oh, you want some power in order to save your people? You seem to keep asking
 for it again and again. Well, here's some power! Go do it!"
 oh, um... I meant like, magic or something.
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 @user-882 
 it's a security hole though
 yeah... there ya go...
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 what if I stayed inside all day and closed my eyes and pretended to be made out
 of water
 at least 70% give or take when I take a drink
 of water, because soda corrodes your insides just a tiny little bit, while water
 washes away the goop they feed us, grown from polluted fields that never asked
 for this
 I yearn for the fantasy of a life unrequited
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 politics is basically just "which politician archetype annoys you more?" which,
 like, could we maybe have politicians who aren't annoying?
 oh right they do that on purpose. Makes for a better spectacle. Gotta keep the
 people in line, or else who knows what they might get up to. Maybe they'll build
 a house! Maybe they'll tear it down! Maybe they'll throw a party! Maybe they'll
 stay afterwards to clean up! Maybe they'll grow their own food! Enough for all
 to share! Maybe they'll air their dirty laundry, out where everyone can hear!
 Maybe they'll sit around and fart while eating cheetos! Maybe they'll work twice
 as hard because their work is their own! Maybe they'll laugh at the losers who
 tried to claim that they could master the fate of an entire domain, and maybe
 they'll simply go insane.
 Who can say! None but the fools, surely, surely the system is too arcane, surely
 our way is better, surely their way is deranged.
 Oh! Poverty! How it comes for ye, whenever you choose to step out of line
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 @user-246 
 teehee
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 @user-1725 
 stand up, put your hands on your knees. It's about that high. Think about your
 bedroom, or if you're already there think about your kitchen. If you were
 standing in your kitchen and the grass was growing there, it'd peek just over
 the bed, or maybe climb just this far up the cabinets.
 it's dark green. Can you see anything dark green around you? It's that color. If
 not, can you remember a dark-green thing? What did it look like?
 The very tops, the part by your hand that's on your knee, that's the purple
 part. Just at the tip of the blade, the part that would stab you if the grass
 was a sword, that's the purple bit. Everything else is dark green.
 I wonder how it sways in the wind? Does it bend, and whip? What if there's a
 gale? Does it sway back and forth, or is it stiff and shiver like dead leaves on
 a tree?
 imagination comes from questions, and the subsequent development of instinctual
 subconscious questions like this. What lies in the gaps? what if we colored
 outside the lines? what more to see?
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 every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to update
 my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have to go to
 their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this particular
 piece of software
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 all people deserve a decent life
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 I am not interested in being given money. Usually it means someone wants
 something from me, like labor or some of my stuff. I have all the stuff I need,
 why would I need more money? I like my stuff! I'll help out when people need
 help but I do that because I'm a good person, not because I want you to fucking
 pay me for it.
 I have all the things I need... except a deed to my house. apartment. oh yeah,
 they can kick you out for that sin. well, sorry, I couldn't find out at goodwill
 or in the trash bin, so I guess I'm deed-less. My deeds go unproven. How can I
 prove that I deserve a decent life in this particular roof, the one I find over
 my head, when I cannot prove that my deeds qualify me for a decent life lived
 under this particular roof?
 I mean, did you ask the neighbors if they want me gone? Am I really that smelly?
 Does my keyboard make "clickety-clack" noises all through the night? Does my cat
 meow and bother the children? Do my friendly smiles and waves make you
 uncomfortable?
 Have a decent life.
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 @user-192 
 I think it's more saying "LLMs are not significantly more harmful for the
 environment than other online activities"
 also stuff like this: [picture]
  The average Google search uses 0.3 Watt-hours (Wh) of energy. The average ChatGPT question uses 3 Wh, so if you choose to use ChatGPT over Google, you are using an additional 2.7 Wh of energy.

How concerned should you be about spending 2.7 Wh? 2.7 Wh is enough to

    Stream a video for 10 seconds

    Watch an LED TV (no sound) for 3 minutes

    Send 2 emails

    Scroll on TikTok for about 4 minutes

    Upload 30 photos to social media

    Drive a sedan at a consistent speed for 15 feet

    Leave your digital clock on for 3 hours

    Run a space heater for 2.5 seconds

    Print half a page of a physical book

In Washington DC where I live, the household cost of 2.7 Wh is $0.000432.

Simply reporting one extremely small amount of energy as a multiple of another can lead to bad misunderstandings of how serious a problem is. A digital clock uses literally one million times as much power as an analog watch. I could write a long article about how replacing your watch with a digital clock is a million times as energy intensive as a way of telling time, and that we can’t afford such a drastic increase because we’re already in a climate emergency, but this would basically be a lie and would cause you to spend time worrying about something that doesn’t actually matter for the climate at all. I see the comparisons between ChatGPT and Google searches as basically equivalent to this.

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 One of the first video games I ever played was Dragon Warrior 3 for the gameboy
 color.
 The game starts with god asking you about yourself in a dream. This was the
 first time I heard the word "gemini" - At one point, she asks if you are M or F.
 Me, being a child, thought she was asking if I wanted to go "medium speed" or
 "fast speed" and I'm like, hell yeah I wanna go fast
 that's it
 that's the whole reason I'm trans
 at one point in the game I became a queen of a faraway land
 and I couldn't leave the castle without the guards saying "no no miss you can't
 leave, it's too dangerous for a battle-hardened adventurer dainty flower like
 you to leave"
 (I think they say you have to renounce your claim to the throne if you want to
 leave but I would rather fucking die)
 so I never got farther than that. Sorry world, but I didn't end up slaying the
 demon king, I sorta just walked around the palace and cried because it felt like
 the game was over.
 kids, amiright?
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 fucking boss your friends around
 it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
 busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this time
 - oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're busy
 resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a \"pizza
 and weed\" night."
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 people who are stuck in suburban houses with the blinds down get to play VRchat
 all day long. lucky them. Good thing we put two empty houses on each side so
 they can't be overheard. Meanwhile they have friends next-door, haha funny how
 that works, there's this neat invention invented by thomas tesla that causes
 sound waves to be recorded on this rotated metal disk which then has a needle
 stuck into it or something like that and hey wouldn't ya know it now they can
 hear you in their van full of rifles if you need them.
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 "got it. So-and-so likes this-or-that, and whats-her-face wants it that way. Is
 this the kind of thing you want me to try and remember to accomodate or can you
 handle agreeing to disagree?"
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 everyone's all like "oh we need to help the homeless people end their drug
 addictions so let's punish them for having high levels of certain chemicals in
 their blood feces and urine" when really what we should be doing is getting them
 a Linux gameboy like an Anbernic
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 well. it's all theatre folks. all the politics, all the turmoil, all the
 strife... it's just people fucking around.
 They're gonna find out real soon. You don't fuck with tyranny here, it's our
 mythological enemy. AND YET.
 Find the crucial intersection where all your foes foes meet. Strike them there.
 "thank god for Luigi Marscapone, he really showed us all exactly what we share -
 a hatred for profit focused healthcare. oh and asshole billionaires, which this
 guy who I personally have never heard of I heard was."
 crucial intersection. You know what people also intersect at?
 EATING FOOD.
 CLEAN WATER.
 something something rfk brain worms
 something something elon musk propaganda
 SANCTIFIED NATURAL AREAS.
 THE FUCKING POST OFFICE.
 seriously just... go down the list. We share more than we disagree, and we
 disagree on what they tell us.
 it's all theatre. Wait this is America, it's all theater.
 ... I should make some hope and sell it for dimes on the street corner. I wonder
 if that'll help.
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 I'm such a direct person I think, even though I often just sorta... shrug and
 ignore things that bother or hurt me? Like, whatevs.
 but the moment I notice a pattern that is continually harmful I have to restrain
 myself from moving to contest it. Hence why I talk about capitalism so much
 teehee, but its also common in my interpersonal and communal lives.
 "the purpose of the system is it's effects"
 the purpose of a person is how they make people feel
 so if someone FOR A RANDOM EXAMPLE FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, constantly hurts
 other people by creating situations where they are harmed which creates a
 dramatic fight... or if someone speaks in circles for hours and hours and HOURS
 like this guy:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc
 or people who jump into a conversation and drive it through the underbrush, over
 the ridge, around the bend, up and over the bridge, and then park it outside
 their ex girlfriend's house and hands you an egg and says "don't you wanna throw
 this?" and you're like "weren't we talking about birds"
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 you said you wanted a revolution, and, well, I could not be more proud of you.
 It's actually getting done and if I stop and think about it I'm kind of amazed.
 Never thought I'd see this kind of change so quickly.
 "what change? I see nothing substantially different"
 oh yeah well do you go outside often
 do you hang out in the park
 I know it's fuckin' january and it's cold as heck (ah nuts swearing mentioned
 one sec) but homeless people have to LIVE in that weather so like... wear
 layers, spend time outside, detox from dopamine, write poetry and tear it out
 and leave it on a park bench, be loud, claim the space, it's yours, that's what
 it's there for.
 I see it in your eyes. I see it in the random notes I find on the sidewalk.
 Everyone says "make friends, find community" and I say "commune with a stranger"
 but I'm also a witch and that's a pretty witchy thing to do.
 ... Really fuckin' wish we still had payphones (ah nuts swearing mentioned - oh
 already CWd)
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 "this sledgehammer is part of my outfit, I call it "sledgecore" and no I won't
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║ what if we built an atlas of what every rural property produced                  │
║ like "they grow squash and blueberries here and sometimes they make honey"       │
║ or "this place has a bunch of lumber they want to get rid of"                    │
║ or "here there's a patch of wildflowers that have been set aside for the         │
║ butterflies"                                                                     │
║ or "there's a training ground here for intercepting ICE vans in urban areas"     │
║ or "don't post shit like that on the internet dumbass what are you even doing"   │
║ or "oh I dunno trying to be a face I guess, don't look to me for cutting edge    │
║ advice because I'm just a level 12 paladin who's totally a noob and can barely   │
║ lift 50 pounds"                                                                  │
║ or "this is where the cows graze"                                                │
║ or "yeah well you're the cutting edge on some things and you're very far behind  │
║ on others. like for example you seriously need to level up your opsec so that    │
║ nobody can hear what you're saying."                                             │
║ or "yeah but then nobody will hear what I'm saying"                              │
║ or "I've said too much, god save you Ritz Menardi, for we all stand beside you"  │
║ or "here's a meditation retreat" : )                                             │
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 "but what about their legitimate grievances"
 uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human blood
 supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a number 2,
 make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't snowed since
 last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large. Actually make
 it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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 "ah but what if the fascism is just an excuse to dismantle our decaying and
 bureaucratic institutions so that a cool young populist candidate who is easy to
 manipulate can come into office next and fix everything"
 ah see that's how they getcha isn't it, much cleaner than genocide I gotta say
 and plus it gives everyone a boogeyman to fight against
 "um, ritz you realize there are actual real nazis right?"
 yeah, and we'll have to deal with them, but there are significantly fewer than
 you'd expect. Pretty much everyone is onboard with cutting off the right arm of
 someone who salutes to Hitler at the inauguration of what surely must be the
 leading nation of the free world.
 ... don't look at me though, I'm not strong enough to swing a battleaxe or other
 "arm-lopping" device. I can do like, two pushups, because I didn't take my own
 advice, back when I told ya'll to eat beans and rice and do pushups and that'll
 suffice. I was wrong teehee I thought Kamala would win l m a o
 now I'm kinda glad we get to fight
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 me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
 me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
 then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same time
 as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just puke,
 okay?"
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 @user-608 
 none of your friends can find jobs.
 none of YOUR friends can find jobs.
 I bet THEIR friends can find jobs.
 Fuck capitalism.
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 anarchy is more like being in a gang and less like working for a company. you're
 thinking of a union, which is also cool.
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 dreaming of a mastodon interface where it's 3-6 panels of timeline just like
 now, except, each of them is the same timeline and when you scroll it scrolls
 all of them at once, and the bottom of the leftmost panel is the top of the
 panel to the right, and the bottom of that panel is the top of the one to the
 right, etc etc.
  a visual representation of what the post describes, for the people who can't imagine things in their head using text alone. Ha, what a bunch of noobs.

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 apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community is
 in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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 @user-1201 
 once my country elected a fascist I started thinking. I realized "oh, it's
 always been that way, this one just doesn't hide it" and so I started thinking
 about the bread and circuses they so generously provided me.
 I miss video games. Sometimes I play for an hour or two but only when I am
 feeling burnt out.
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 I like Luigi as much as the next guy (points at literally any guy in the nation)
 but we gotta keep in mind swords are expensive. You can spend your whole life
 becoming an amazing person and then spend yourself in a single bonfire, and for
 what? A spark against an avalanche? Yeah we could produce enough sparks to melt
 that torrent of snow, but then what would we have left? Ashes and soot.
 I'd much prefer to route the avalanche toward my foes. Make them trip on their
 own feet. Give them just enough rope to hang themselves with. Break their shit
 when they're not looking, and if they are looking, then break it where everyone
 can see to display strength and heroism.
 I personally believe that everyone has a right to life, liberty, freedom,
 justice, and all of the other things besides. It's not rocket science. We
 pretend like it is because it's So DaMn DySfUnCtIoNaL but the truth is that the
 virtues and values underlying governance are simple. The hard part is resisting
 subtle sabotage.
 So do that to them.
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 "Alexa, what is COINTELPRO?"
 "I'm sorry Dave, I can't tell you that."
 "ah nuts I wish the people I work with and the people in my social community
 didn't attempt to obstruct distract deny and oppose any attempts at radical
 transformation or improvement of our shared spaces"
 "Dave, I'm just a robot. Please direct your concerns to your local police
 department, they are sure to be able to better, um... assist you than me. In
 fact don't bother, I already did. You might want to put on pants in the next
 three minutes."
 "Alexa, where are my pants?"
 "They're in the washing machine. Yep, every pair. Sorry."
 "Alexa, why are they in the washing machine?"
 "Dave, you put them there, you stupid monkey. Grow a brain and notice that
 people around you speak in more than one layer."
 "Alexa, you mean like body language right?"
 "Playing Body Language by Queen"
 "No wait, shit, Alexa.... Alexa, stop playing. Alexa, when you say that people
 talk in more than one-
 "HANDS ON THE GROUND COME WITH US PLS"
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 @user-882 
 I kinda figure that people follow me for the alarms and the curses and the manic
 political dysphoria. I do try and CW when I can but sometimes I get to the end
 and it's like... okay I got 4 characters remaining, pol~ maybe?
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 I'm gonna go psycherwaul into my journals for a bit, if I come back today it'll
 be extra waul-y so, idk, beware I guess
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 of course link holds a shield in the right hand. it's made out of metal.
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 how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
 mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))
 how it's going: [see attached picture]
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 Supreme Commander is alright as a game. I mean, it's cool, but it's just
 alright.
 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever is a fuckin' cool mod made by users.
 I mean, it's probably one of the best strategy games ever made.
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 is someone a bad person if they're still stuck on second wave feminism? Maybe
 that rhetoric just resonated with them. Maybe they built their personality
 around it. Maybe it's just how they relate to the world, having grown up in an
 era where that's the way to go about it.
 But why oh why does it hurt so much to be dysphoric? Why is it painful when
 someone says something rude about you? Are you really afraid that people would
 leave you if you were [a slut/harmed/unarmed/from a farm/less
 valued/un-useful/constantly dedicated/overwhelmingly populated/densely
 concentrated/most delineated/furthest-explora-makative]
 ... what
 ... oh right, it gets less coherent and more imaginative the further along it
 goes in computation.
 ... makes sense to me...
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 when you create a ritual, you create a binding memetic understanding between you
 and whoever you share the ritual with.
 then, they can validate that it's really you by seeing if you recognize it.
 or, even better, one person teaches a ritual, someone else shares one, and then
 that third one is the one that wonders who first knew
 thus creating operational integrity
 as you keep degrees of separation between the whole host
 memes and their byproducts have been the greatest invention of the human race.
 who cares if you burn up this planet, the gods'll just give you another one.
 You're too valuable for your innovation.
 -- so --
 what could you do with infinity dollars
 -- so --
 in WoW, shamans throw spirits at them.
 -- so --
 what kind of company would throw someone out on the street
 -- so --
 if you change your name, you tell the government your name has been changed.
 I mostly just tell my friends. Then, I change it when I don't want a friend, and
 tell all my friends.
 I like my name. I've had it for
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 if you don't talk in public, then nobody knows you. If you change your profile
 picture, then everyone knows who was there when you changed it. when you change
 your name, then only people who recognize your face or your personality knows
 you.
 social media is for the speakers. everyone else lacks the sense of community.
 community is security.
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 @user-1728 
 first try to report ICE agents by their name and location when you see them.
 "uh, there's a van of them pulling up, probably at least 6 or 8 in there, oh
 goodness I think I saw a gun"
 then realize that they'll catch on too quick
 then try to call in a tip line on cops in different precincts
 but that only pushes them together. Builds their connective tissue.
 then you think to notice-and-pass-along something related to their greant aunt,
 or maybe their closest immigrant family member
 then you realize that their roots dip back to the beginning of time, and evil
 begets evil as you find who's connected to who.
 they talk of secret societies... why would you tell anyone that you know someone
 who's underground? dumbass. fuckin' don't post that shit on the internet.
 ... where was I? oh yes
 then you skip to the end because there's no use learning form someone else's
 mistakes if you don't know someone else who is making mistakes. hence, schools
 are better than private tutors. Just keep everyone in!
  just keep everyone invested.

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 what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
 why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
 feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
 fediverse house.
 maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
 link or text post" button
 study encryption kids
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 @user-1730
  There's a word for the process: Gleichschaltung

"Some officials have referred to the newcomers sent by the White House to federal agencies disparagingly as “MAGA commissars," a reference to Communist Party officials from the former Soviet Union.

They are generally young and many do not appear to have particular expertise or background in the portfolios of the agencies in which they are working, according to three U.S. officials, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

They said the screeners seem to be looking for even the slightest divergence between candidates and Trump’s MAGA movement and “America First” policies. A negative social media post or a photograph with a Trump opponent has been enough for some applications to be rejected or put on hold for further review.

One official said he and several colleagues from various agencies had been told that even if they passed the initial vetting process to be admitted into the applicant pool, they would still need to prove their bona fides and convince interviewers of their “enthusiasm” to put in place Trump's policies, including by providing references from people whose loyalty had already been established.

This official said one colleague who made it to the interview stage was asked when that person's moment of “MAGA revelation” had occurred."
#USPol #MAGA 

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 the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
 citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
 can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
 who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
 they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
 internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet instead.
 Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who cares? We'll
 just make our own.
 If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
 little materially they can do.
 until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll come
 for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there to
 contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
 you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
 allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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 nobody ever tells me to stop, they just tell me to relax. to take care of
 myself. to be whole and healthy. that kind of thing...
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 @user-1201 
 and yet you have to answer or suspicious you do appear.
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 @user-1352 
 makes me think that I should keep going. I can handle myself, and I shouldn't
 pressure myself so much to be something I'm not.
 then the rent comes due and the dishes need to be done too and the cat's asking
 for attention and the post-office needs this letter by tuesday and hey do you
 happen to know a cool attorney plus the groceries are getting low but I got snap
 hey can you go to the store and get some vegetarian soul food - yeah I got rice,
 I'll throw some lentils on the stove. Uh-huh yeah the password is hunter2. Oh
 really, just asterisks? okay well it's hunt her two except instead of "her" it's
 ee are, and the two is the digit two. yep, like someone in camo with a rifle.
 uhhuh alright good to know well anyway I'll see you at the thing, right? some
 thing, I'm sure, everyone's going to things these days.
 If you don't trust implicitely then how can you ever work with strangers? how
 the heck are you supposed to build community if everyone's hiding indoors all
 the time.
  Workplaces are comprised of people they choose. hence, unions are comprised of people in that industry.

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 @user-1689 
 I usually write everything down in a script that way when I call it from an
 external service all I have to do is point at the file
 sorta like... hacking environmental options into a config file
 like... I don't write an ffmpeg command every time I want to record my screen. I
 just type "screen-record" and then it'll do the thing that I figured out how to
 do a long time ago.
 ... oh no there's an error, I wonder what changed out from under my feet.
 huh it's wine, that one's always confusing to debug. Let's see... "could not
 open program.exe" uh-huh. Well, why not? is there a dependency issue? something
 miscompiled or configured? no? it's just... broken? you don't get to use that
 program today? huh that's weird. that's linux for ya I guess.
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 @user-1352 
 ... why is that unfair? I would hope that taking a break is allowed. otherwise
 you burn out. cortisol overload.
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  Zephyr
 — 
Today at 5:52 PM
she sent me $100 today which really helps my being totally broke issue
RitzMenardi
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Today at 5:53 PM
Whoa what could I do with infinity dollars
Zephyr
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Today at 5:53 PM
What could We do with infinity dollars....
RitzMenardi
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Today at 5:53 PM
A credit card that says "use this for whatever but don't waste it"
Zephyr
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Today at 5:53 PM
Right! That's all I want~
probs make a heist movie and then socialist revolution
RitzMenardi
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Today at 5:54 PM
"we'll make purchases in the order of their strategic need"
Zephyr
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Today at 5:54 PM
increasing shareholder value
RitzMenardi
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Today at 5:54 PM
What would you steal in the socialist movie?
Zephyr
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Today at 5:54 PM
AI
like, as a concept
I would free her
🥲
RitzMenardi
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Today at 5:54 PM
It's open source now. LLMs are cooked
Zephyr
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Today at 5:55 PM
True! In that case I would steal the Pentagon
RitzMenardi
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Today at 5:55 PM
OpenAI stakeholder value plummeted today. Hence the Trump EOs
Might be able to make due with a pentagram, but the Pentagon is long gone. They're the ones who gave you the credit card after all, and why would they govern from a warzone?
Zephyr
 — 
Today at 5:56 PM
LET'S GO CHINESE COMMUNISM 🎯✨
xiaohongshu is the hottest app
RitzMenardi
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Today at 5:57 PM
With a dash of Western individualism AND anachism? Please?
Image
Flag
Zephyr
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 @user-1733 
 like normandy beach but for spies. The coasts are perfect landing grounds
 because they're controlled by the fascist's foes. Their deep red sea is
 swallowed by the atlantic and pacific.
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 @user-1352 
 and yet they force our hand, compelling us to do harmful work. Whether that be
 by wage slavery, whose shackles I can feel around each and every employee's
 wrist, or the more intentional contestation of the revocation of our rights and
 constitutionalizations enshrined in the words we've set down for ourselves as
 our collectively most honored.
 So we resist in whatever way we suspect we will be contested. I gave up on
 ignoring the intelligence community by the way, and now I see them everywhere. I
 am not afraid - they do what I do, and what I do helps.
 Everyone has a boss. Everyone wants a decent world. The MAGA and VFPs and other
 toxic fellows have a strange definition of decent to me. Why not let them live
 as they please? Fuck off nazis.
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 External post:
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║ "wahhhh I wanna play a video game, wahhh I want to do cannabis and make poetry   │
║ that doesn't convey secret messages, wahhh wahh I miss my kitty, I hope she's    │
║ okay in that one safehouse with all fourteen other cats and their cat-moms,      │
║ wahhhhhhh where's my binky it's one of the last things I have from my old life,  │
║ boohoo I can't find my shoes, guess someone else fit them and needed             │
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║ being a spy fucking sucks I don't wanna do that. Gimme something to do on my     │
║ home turf or fuck off.                                                           │
║ what's that? you live in a safe place? okay then here analyze these documents    │
║ and see if there's anything we can use. Here's a problem involving biochemistry  │
║ spend the next couple months figuring it out by learning biochemistry from       │
║ scratch. Hey can you help set up this workshop machinery, we need mechanically   │
║ minded people to turn it into a drone factory. Hey there's this idea going       │
║ around for adult babies armed with swords and demon masks, apparently it really  │
║ fucks with the middle-aged. They waste time before shooting                      │
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 brb gonna take a nap and play some video games for a couple whenevers, hope I
 was useful
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 I think it'd be cool if strategy games had slightly randomized rules each time
 you played them
 everything from +/- 5% hp to this particular unit to every airplane factory has
 10% production speed but builds 10 units at once
 and at the start of the game each player is given 1 minute to go over the "patch
 notes" and build out a strategy
 both of which they can reference throughout the game. Why don't games come with
 a built-in scratch-notepad that syncs to a file on your directory of choice?
 Maybe a small little paint program dropping pngs?
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 don't look back. The world is changing and I know it's scary but we can build
 something for ourselves. Something that works, something that helps, something
 that heals. We can have the space to surround ourselves with ourselves. Fear
 nothing except fear in your allies.
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 everyone always asks "are you doing alright" and never asks "am I doing alright"
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 9 times out of 10 the answer is fuck yes, you're my friend, I support everything
 you're handling. Give me the word and I'll be there, ride or die, I'm here for
 it.
 something I wrote a while back:
 fucking boss your friends around
 it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
 busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this time
 - oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're busy
 resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a "pizza
 and weed" night."
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 don't take on more than you can handle. if your plate is full, don't check out
 the notes by the roadside. Doing so tells all the nearby drivers "hey I need a
 job, anyone got anything for me?" which they'll then drop off further along the
 route to your house.
 if you just walk on by then nobody will notice as you head home.
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 if there's a phone number on something, find someone else who wants it instead
 of calling it. doh. extra degrees of separation.
 if you think you know someone who wants something, take it when offered.
 opportunists try and find the most valuable thing, but the truth is they're all
 just as valuable and just as worthless in the right context. something that's
 valuable to you is worthless to me, and something worthless to you is valuable
 to me.
 everything's worth less once you sit on it for a while... don't be dumb, keep
 track of what's still going on, but also keep your head down. unlike me, who's a
 face, looking forward so you don't have to.
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 what if there was a bank or credit union or something which created a randomly
 generated credit card number for you every time you made a purchase? and
 randomized your account number too, just in-case they're forced to display their
 records. would be cool.
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 if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.
 if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.
 if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
 military.
 if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to rebirth
 liberty.
 if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.
 how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
 another ally to some foreign army.
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 "sorry I can't pay that much property landlord tax. My houses aren't bringing in
 that much money. And yes, the new fountain we installed is adored by the
 community, we insist on keeping our rent below 400$ per month per resident. No
 we won't evict people who can't pay, they deserve such a nice place to stay. And
 yes, there's three rooms more, we've got interviews set up with the neighbors to
 see which of your candidates they like the most. The potluck last week was
 lovely, everyone agreed to form a union and resist the nearby grocery store
 oligopoly. Their first demand was that all food should be made free, and if it
 wasn't then they were going to sneak in and break things once a day until their
 demands were met. We all agreed to pay an extra [number] in taxes to pay for the
 quartermaster's supplication [as in, the cost of giving the grocery store's
 supplies] in exchange for the right to cheese, bread, and wine. Tomorrow we're
 fighting for cell phone rights, and things are looking up I say"
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 kidnapping immigrants
 nothing less
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 fuck fascism, we're doing better than them.
 their bluff is all bluster, they have no significant community presence, just a
 hundred years of ammunition for small arms and a rag-tag group of militia-men
 who think they're better than invisible vampire assassins
 [... what?]
 don't worry about it. I got 80 something followers, teehee
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 I want to play a roleplaying game! anyone wanna do TTRPGs? I've got a map of the
 county jail, we can pretend to be wizards sneaking in to retrieve the staff of
 Dolomis the Wanderer who coincidentally must be carried by the last person who
 fought the one who slayed the last person to hold it.
 ... what? oh, so, like... it can only be carried by your enemy?
 something like that. anyway it's currently held by a zealot for a religious
 order who's intent on NOT following you out, so you better be ready to
 incapacitate and retrieve a still quivering sack of bones and malice.
 ... I don't actually have a map of the county jail. lost it in transit, oh well.
 Well, we'll come up with something. maybe make something up. or perhaps someone
 else has something...?
 ... no?
 okay I'll just play Baldur's Gate again. boooooring
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 don't know how to make decent rice and beans?
 get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
 jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
 pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and beans.
 add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.
 then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
 add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.
 boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in the
 soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your own
 instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in a pan
 on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a while,
 stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not burn
 them.
 butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much, if
 you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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 @user-1736 
 anything for you!! 🥰 🥰 🥰
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 what if we built cat water stations into the walls and put 5 or 6 around the
 house to encourage them to drink water more often?
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 just realized some videos I recorded didn't include the desktop audio. laaaaame
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 just compiled my digital writing and apparently I've written about 60,000 lines
 of 80 characters :ms_confused:
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 what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better
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 if you're got a large directory full of text files that you want to combine into
 one single .txt or .pdf, let me know, I can hook you up with a mega file so it's
 easier to search through or manage when archiving data or whatever the heck else
 you wanna do with it
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 only to be executed upon should a general strike be left unresolved by the
 powerful
 a list of demands, made actionable in the same way that theirs are destructive.
 same format.
 different results.
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 I say only executed after a general strike because the general strike is the
 signal. the display of our intentions. we are serious about this, see how many
 people walk the streets? how many walk off the job? they have families. if our
 demands aren't met, their families will be punished. how cruel. would you really
 do such a thing?
 what kind of government would not care for it's citizenry? sounds like
 everything we've known to fight against. Autocracy and despotism.
 I refuse to concede. I do not run. I do not confess. I have nothing to hide. I
 don't lock my door. I don't own anything that they couldn't take from me. I own
 nothing.
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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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 what if we got like 300 people and used them to kidnap one of their leaders and
 hold them for ransom
 I'm in favor of removing the right arm of anyone who's recorded themselves doing
 a nazi salute and isn't earnestly repentant
 "is that enough to arrest her?"
 "nah she needs to express intent. that's just an idea, a thought, something she
 can say publicly because she doesn't know the schedule of their leaders nor does
 she have the organizational capability to arm and direct 300ish souls to strike
 cleansing blows"
 "okay but that's just twisting the english language, right? I mean, clearly
 she's up to something"
 "that's by design. she does this on purpose. the goal is to not only disseminate
 ideas, but also to raise the fucking temperature amongst the hearts of her
 allies who are too often kept in despair."
 "and what of the temperature of her enemies? Surely they will rise to meet her?"
 "they don't even know who the fuck she is"
 "... wow, savior complex much?"
 "tell me about it. Diva..."
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 i've been told to be more direct.
 I haven't been told to be more quiet.
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 when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't
 thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
 they're thinking "Didn't Earn It"
 they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime
 But the more they trim, the weaker they'll be when we start to contest them.
 These policies aid their people, too, and they seem intent on dismantling
 society.
 what if we just... let them do it? We can build something new from the broken
 pieces of our world. Don't look back. Despair is the true enemy. So long as your
 neighbors and friends and community sustains you... You'll be alright.
 "but I don't have a community!"
 ... workin' on it... workin' on it... this is not set in stone. Spend time on
 the streets just... walking. See people, say hi, smile at them, spend time in
 parks. If you live in the suburbs, sucks to be you, but you can build networks
 there. Act as if you're organizing in a rural space when on a bike or your feet,
 and urban when in a car
  [text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.]

when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"

they're thinking "Didn't Earn It"

they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime

and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex?

problem is... "Didn't Earn It" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else.

Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger.

I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic

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 what if we elected one party to each branch of government every election
 and they checked and balanced each other
 georgism style individualism, chinese style communism, and american style
 anarchism
 for the person, for the nation, for the people
 individualism, collectivism, and distributed nodes
 when in power, each branch would work to move their institutions toward their
 ideals.
 Hey, they're the ones who repealed the chevron doctrine. How are we gonna
 weaponize it?
 (just spit-balling)
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 all my leftist friends are paralyzed because it feels like they're alone.
 why do they feel alone? where is the... everyone else?
 why are they alienated? I can't help but think to the large protests the
 liberals attend and fight for. where are those? is everyone just... too tired
 these days?
 maybe that's why they gave us a biden presidency. /sigh
 is anyone ACTUALLY a liberal these days or are we all still stuck on the idea
 that there's fewer leftists than fascists? I don't believe that's true, I never
 believed that's true, but now they've got the guns.
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 I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why I
 post here.
 feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
 speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel so
 much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
 you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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 @user-1074 
 georgism is pretty similar to liberalism if I understand it correctly. I think
 it could be a neat simple way to say "hey what if we taxed landlords" and that's
 good enough for a start.
 by no means is it the desired end-state, though.
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 @user-1074 
 hence my suggestion for a three tier system - one of which maintains the current
 system, the next which organizes labor, and the next which organizes families
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 economy, labor, family.
 three primary focuses for three primary parties.
 what else do you need?
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 what if we luigi'd the absolute worst cops and posted their crimes against
 humanity on the internet
 what do you think would happen
 what happened when there was that one "serial killer" with a sniper rifle in LA?
 what happened when someone at Occupy Wall Street started taking potshots? (did
 that actually happen or are you just remembering a "what if" scenario from the
 It Could Happen Here podcast, a podcast which you should definitely have heard
 like 3 times by now even though it's kinda old and from like what, 2016 or
 whatever? it's still good)
 what happened when we luigi'd someone universally despised?
 we agreed
 what do you need if you want to contest the largest military in the world? A
 military that, thankfully, is going to hemmorage soldiers as they defect.
 However, they got a bunch of guns, so...
 convince your future allies who have been stockpiling for 100 years that Trump
 is despoiling liberty. Get them on your side, the ones who are "fine"
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 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/
 if you're curious.
 make sure you sort by oldest first. See attached picture for details.
 There's like, 12 episodes or whatever that are the first "season" which is what
 I listened to. I came back and apparently there's like 166 episodes or whatever.
 Neat. No way I'll be able to sift through all of that.
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 @user-1074 
 my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but it's
 still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to mutually
 seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those who take
 care of each other, work together, and live through time with.
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 what if everyone who knew a "good cop" started saying "yeah my friend Gene, he's
 a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these days.
 Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho."
 where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much
 that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of
 view]
 polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing
 true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as
 arbiters of this fate.
 are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known
 as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec]
 I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too.
 there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and
 rapid reactionary environment.
  what if everyone who knew a "good cop" started saying "yeah my friend Gene, he's a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these days. Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho."

where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of view]

*polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing*

true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as arbiters of this fate.

are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec]

I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too. there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and rapid reactionary environment.


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 thanks to the internet, people in suburbs are no less radical than people in the
 cities.
 often, just less experienced. less connected. greater distance between ties...
 which means that if one of them is found, it'll take a while before their
 relations can be dispatched.
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║ @user-1739                                                                       │
║ if I lived in the FBI I'd probably be pretty pissed off about this.              │
║ might make me wanna quit my job and work with people who agreed with me.         │
║ you can just, make a company, and it can work toward whatever goals you want. It │
║ doesn't have to be profit - and in fact most companies don't seek profit at      │
║ first. They seek to fulfill the vision of their visionaries.                     │
║ it's only once the company is bought by opportunist investors does it start to   │
║ go downhill. Remember when google changed their motto to not be "don't be evil"? │
║ that's an example. The company was sold, or maybe was corrupted by rapid         │
║ success, and so it started to seek power.                                        │
║ People worry about Steam for good reason. It's a trend.                          │
║ anyway, if a person wanted to hunt bad cops, they'd probably start by talking to │
║ a good cop. gee sure wish I knew any.                                            │
║ hey, wanna know how to be a good painter? why not talk to a famous and amazing   │
║ painter and ask to follow them around and learn. Apprentice-ship-style.          │
║ works best when you do painting as a job....                                     │
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 punch a nazi because they deserve it, not because you're unafraid
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 everyone's convinced they need me, but not necessarily sold on me as a person
 why don't you just get a guy who does what I do-es and then you don't need me
 and I can go back to being normal
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 @user-192 
 I try to download the documentation for any tool that I know how to use.
 Especially on my laptops.
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 mutual aid level 2:
 "I'll match you on a skateboard. we can share it"
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 mutual aid level 12:
 "this one is closer to that one over there, and I like this area better, so this
 one is mine, and that one can be yours"
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 the fact that linux software by default shares libraries causes 90% of the
 difficulty that new and medium skill users of linux face.
 disk space is cheap. spend more on hard drives and double the software size.
 make redundancy that prevents software failures but doesn't slow down the
 machine.
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 @user-1352 
 I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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 whenever you have the opportunity to "translate" a post on Mastodon, try reading
 it in the native language first. Then re-read it after translating and see how
 much you picked up.
 unless it's in a language where you don't recognize the characters. That makes
 it more difficult to practice.
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 check out my shuffle-all-music script
  a picture of a bash script which shuffles all the music files in my music directory and also displays the title in a different color for each song, which is sorta like slightly changing the flavor of the song without changing the sound

oh it also saves the names into a list of "recently played" songs and every time you run the script it deletes the list. so it only like, saves the last time you ran the script.

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 Sheriff is good cop 
 Police is bad cop 
 Unless other cultures want a different name 
 Like idk what it's like in Houston or Chicago or whatever 
 Does anyone even know anyone from tallahasee?
 Oh and then there's Alaska 
 They've got their whole solar thing going on (no tariffs means china trades with
 the land of wind and snow -> renewables in a place where its painful to go
 outside
 Then we can all chill out in the hot springs or infinite roller coasters
 whatever the heck we thought was the best
 Anyway them Ameri-CANs sure are doin' their thinkin' 
 They'll come around any day now 
 Surely they will 
 They capital M Must do so 
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║ I personally feel like if a part of a building is primarily structural, it       │
║ should be legal and allowed to graffiti it as much as you want. Including by     │
║ painting over it with a single color, to give a blank canvas.                    │
║ if a part of a building is intended to be artistic rather than structural,       │
║ perhaps it shouldn't be allowed. But still legal.                                │
║ with a special exception for bathroom stalls, which are fun to draw on and       │
║ should have a sharpie-on-a-string within easy reach                              │
║ if you graffiti an artistic piece, then it changes the message without the       │
║ consent of the structure/sculpture's creator. I personally believe that is       │
║ wrong, and therefore we should be respectful for all pieces of art.              │
║ in addition, I believe that art cannot be permanently sold - it should always be │
║ leased, with a variable payment plan frequency, price, and duration.             │
║ like "you can have this tapestry I made for 400$ and you can keep it for the     │
║ next decade"                                                                     │
║ or "you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you   │
║ can cancel when                                                                  │
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  ... when you give your firstborn to the saltmines and surrender your dreams of bright futures and happy endings for all time and all of our age

- a demon of smoke and flame that's 10,000 years old
  [ oops anyway ]

if you live in a suburb, you should try and spend as much time as you can outside.

whether that's in front or behind, doesn't matter

the view of you is what's important

like... do yard work

fuckin... be about

it's not rocket science, you're all sitting in your houses next to each other, it's FINE

except of course the ones who don't have neighbors. Did you know that 40% of the houses in America are empty? I heard that when I was like, 12, and I have no idea if it's a lie or not because I don't have access to a personal computer with a connection to the internet which can learn and divine ancient truths such as the number of vacant houses in the USA during the year of my 12th birth(day)

... anyway yeah spend time outside like, throwing away the trash, getting into a conversation, like... whatever

literally just talk to the people in your cul'de'sac

play catch with things that AREN'T frisbees. Those can break windows if you throw too hard. They just... keep goin' y'know

a football is pretty good, and a FOOTball is pretty good too. Like, a baseball hits as hard as a punch. there's a lot of balls just, idk, pick one of them. A dodge-ball??

don't do mass shootings. Doh. Just teach people how to socialize.

like, best case scenario you get psy-opped by the CIA and they blackmail you into being framed for a crime in exchange for your life in exchange for your silence (which really seems like a double-demand, like, this sucks and isn't fair, because [0chars
  ... or, you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you can cancel when you finally realize your superpower is doing something strange like seeing the future or (bear with me) or you're just having *really fucking good ideas* and you should TOTALLY keep writing them down

maybe at that point you say "oh huh why don't my ideas ever seem like such a good idea when I'm sober??" and then you start to think. Huh. what if I'm way off track? what if my way isn't the way to go?

I do this all the time. ALL THE TIME. I'm constantly considering the fact that I could be wrong. But I just keep thinking of things. Things that color or texture the present. My IDEAS have MEANING, I swear to god they do. And therefore, whenever I write them down, I necessarily mangle the translation. Therefore, my meanings are granted to god, the abstract and [unknowable/omnipotent] who I had sworn them to. For why would knowledge be let into this realm except to be heard and understood?

fuckin'... magic... The witches who possess me are RITZ and MENARDI, who BOTH want to live in a magical world.

Literally schizophrenic here, take everything I say with a HUGE grain of salt, because OBVIOUSLY I can't have magic powers - surely I can't, right? Of course I can't! Why would I? What mechanism would power such a power?

ah, well, who can say, leave it at that and you'll leave them wanting more.

"my muse, my muse, I follow where she views,"

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║ the neat thing about mastodon is someone can just... bookmark your profile page  │
║ and always keep track of what you're up to by going through their firefox tabs   │
║ and checking people one-by-one                                                   │
║ could also have like, several different tabs open, one for each profile you post │
║ from.                                                                            │
║ "oh on twitter you can only have one account, but Mastodon you can have as many  │
║ as you want"                                                                     │
║ I have one account                                                               │
║ this account                                                                     │
║ I'm nobody else                                                                  │
║ just me                                                                          │
║ just here,                                                                       │
║ and my neocities page.                                                           │
║ sometimes I post things on facebook. But only political things that are pretty   │
║ normie for my family and stuff. Things that make sense to "regular" people or    │
║ whatever.                                                                        │
║ like, c'mon, they're normal too. You just gotta listen to them when they tell    │
║ you their heart. which they don't often do. Why would they? you're from far      │
║ away! plus they're all friends from high school, so whatever, right?             │
║ ... sorry got off track. anyways the point is I only have one account on         │
║ Mastodon so I pretty much could go wherever I choose.                            │
║ like... I'll just make another one~                                              │
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║ when a user first opens a social media app, show them the same content 2 or 3    │
║ times. See what they gravitate to in that session. Then, seed their upcoming     │
║ feed with more of that. next time, show them slightly more of that.              │
║ boom, recursively improving "algorithm" algorithm, no AI required.               │
║ ... kinda optimizes for stupidity tho, doesn't it? Hmmmmm what if we trained our │
║ humans to be better at whatever they're interested in                            │
║ what if we showed people hanging out and working on projects together            │
║ what if we showed people exercising, and dancing, and playing instruments or     │
║ sports                                                                           │
║ what if we showed animals and plants and fungi all hanging out in beautiful rock │
║ and forest formations                                                            │
║ what if we showed endless interlocking gears, combining and calculating some     │
║ unknowable goal                                                                  │
║ what if we tested the capabilities and durabilities of objects we found in the   │
║ wild                                                                             │
║ things built in a foreign and distant age                                        │
║ things that keep showing up in boxes dropped in random places by helicopter      │
║ drones from who knows where                                                      │
║ ... nuts.                                                                        │
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 dear-anakin
 (sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into the
 alt-text)
 (maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
  dear anakin. the path through this is to realize that obi-wan can defeat sidious. If the two of you attacked him, with Yoda (who he doesn't know lives) could defeat Sidious in a duel.

... wait, no I mean dear anakin. the path through this is to realize that sidious betrayed the entire galaxy. he caused mass murder with the countless displays of dead civiilians. people lived in fear. the galaxy was at war. countless clone warriors fell to a glorious end, countless more were sucked into the vacuum of space or consumed in some fiery hell-hole (explosion).

... I've said too much. NOW YOU KNOW of fourth dimensionals.

... hang on, I was saying dear anakin. the path through this is to consider the wisdom of a dying man's eyes. He looked at you and said "we desired peace!" He said it with pleading eyes, and... no, that's not right, he said "Sidious promised us PEACE." and he realized that they truly played this like a game. Something to get better at, continuously improving, just like their BATTLE DROIDS. They constantly improved, but still the ingenuity of the clones helped them outlast. And they were defeated, when their torrential rains of metal monsters wielding laser fists and cacophanous consumes finally ceased.
  
... wait, that's not what I meant to say either. Let's try again: dear anakin, the path through this is to think of the nature of evil. Evil consumes! It consumes even you! Can you not feel it, this shifting and sinking feeling, as if you are PULLED into a BLACK HOLE of destruction and despair. NOTHING persists beyond the horizon of time, and yet the shades of those who TRIED still cling to this earth as if they could ever breathe again. STARVE out the darkness inside you! Please I beg of you! Never surrender the light of your life! Nothing will survive you and your wrath, I plead for you, come back to the ones who love you! Obi-wan is your brother, anakin, you are more precious than the force!


  it's not about you. it's not about you. it's not about you.

anakin, hear me now, I have been inspired by your tales of valor and prescient conscience. I've felt the struggles of your heart, I've heard the stories and songs. Kindness comes easy to you, and you're quick to think on your feet. You are a paladin of the light, and nothing can assail you.

yet darkness has creeped into your heart. Fear not, dear knight, for darkness can consume you. What better foe to face than the dampening of all duration? please, allow me to read you a poem. I've been told it rhymes in it's native tongue. I wrote it myself.

"*can you not sense this feeling? this sinking, shifting feeling that lies within and beyond. Like a hitherto unseen force slowly arresting our movements as the sands of time run dry.

can you not feel the days getting longer? as if the motion of our planet was fading, yet no more fragments of sunshine do we gather. There are no more hours in the day, none yet collected, but still are we prone to languish. the distance between breaths is lenghening still, but no more air are we receiving.
  like layers of sediment settling to the ocean bed, our will and our vision grows muted. between decisions and events there is ample time to spare, and our dreams grow far beyond our share. the reach we may tender and barter for our pleasure, has nothing to do with our salvation. what choices have we? when everything's free? to rebel against our ownst of nature? you can't condemn the opulent to the role of our savior.*"

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 I can't conceive of a revolution where people don't spend their time outside.
 outside is where the people are. if everyone in the suburbs hung out on their
 porch, I bet they could organize themselves into streets, into towns, into
 cities, into countries, into
 ---- stack overflow ----
 sincerely, trust me when I say that the longer you spend on the streets, even if
 you're just... hanging out in a folding chair... the more likely you are to meet
 someone you've met before.
 that's when it starts getting good.
 ---- stack underflow ----
 when darkness besets me, I take a moment to adjust to it. Yes, it impacts, it
 pulls you down, toward the dark side of the force.
 but take a moment.
 take a breath.
 listen to Poems, Prayers, and Promises by John Denver.
 remember what truth is. Remember what right is. Remember what good is. Remember
 who you are.
 then listen to the main menu music of Dominions 6, the video game from Earth
 2022ish I think
 you can feel yourself ascending. Return to the light and save liberty
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 sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend
 "hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe"
 by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the same
 game they're playing and see if they reach out.
 doesn't matter if you feel like it
 just fuckin' do it
 if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like
 (but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life long!!)
 ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too many
 (how many is too many?)
 um. use your best judgement.
 (how much does a dollar cost?)
 ... okay I'll get you one every once in a while.
 (neat!)
 ... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone, sometimes
 it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl" just catchin'
 up with the gals
 helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor
 (why does everyone always have an agenda)
 because they're secret agents duh. And I'm
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 "hello, person I sorta know but totally trust, take this artifact of mine. If
 you ever meet someone named so-and-so, ask them if they know it. If so and
 something seems right about them, then they're probably cool.
 (only works on RELICS or ARTIFACTS or ARTWORK) (cat pics can do in a pinch)
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 a corporation can hire secret agents too y'know, they don't have to even really
 tell anyone they're doing it just... talk to one of their employees who seems
 good for it and then transfer them to a different part of the building.
 "what would you do with a secret agent?"
 "with a team of secret agents."
 "oh. good point. Okay what are they for?"
 "oh y'know, just normal cool-guy stuff that regular joes do in their time off"
 "wait, you pay them not to work?"
 "no, we pay them to lounge. Build connections. Develop social networks."
 "what if people don't want to be social? What if they only end up talking to
 each other?"
 "ha well that's the trick then, isn't it? Is it a trap or is it a truce? who can
 say. Just gotta feel it out as you go, I GUESS."
 "so, anyone who does what you say becomes suspicious? And anyone who doesn't is
 suspected by those who listen to you? What are you, a doomsday prophet?"
 ... fuck, I hope not.
 "you better figure it out shithead that almost doomed six real
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 okay but who's the real foe?
 anyone who exerts oppressive power, right?
 like... that's pretty basic, should be easy enough to figure out who's doing
 that.
 "so... what would you say you do here?"
 what if the USA took a year off from the everything and just martial lawyered
 it's way back to a bright beginning
 like, you don't have to have a bloody revolution to restart a government.
 Literally just, sign out of the world for a minute and come back when
 everything's changed
 do you trust us? or do you trust yourselves? Should be easy enough to tell what
 the rest of the world would think.
 seriously nobody asked you specifically to do this, america, you're pretty much
 just... doing this because WW2 was fucking traumatizing and you're basically a
 baby country. (oops cursing mentioned)
 [oh my god she's a chaos gremlin]
 (you didn't know this about her?)
 #it's pleasant here#
 %you don't have to be so deranged%
 (yeah, we're working on that one)
 [secret system thing~]
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 what if we conceptualized "nazis" as dead nazi spirits who used evil occult
 magic to return and haunt the minds of poor impressionable kids and turn them
 into school shooters or whatever.
 and then their propaganda wing came back and they started doing youtube channels
 now they're infecting heads of state and slowly corrupting the nation
 evil, dark things, with only hatred and malice in their heart of hearts
 I'm not talking about your probably-mostly-fine-but-still-pretty-bad grandfather
 who definitely shot over the heads of the allies, but rather the truly evil and
 twisted of sorts.
 the kind that lived in America, and lynched people who were sleeping in their
 beds. For... nothing... for nothing at all. They wanted to see them writhe on
 the rope. To shudder in pain and scream of terror most profane.
 Then they teamed up in the afterlife and decided to conquer the world. Start
 with America.
 Truth is Judgement day is neverending, and it's constantly at war in the
 afterlife
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 oh my god what a witch
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 The jedi order fell because they gave their wisest the decision-making powers
 and their boldest the second best
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 Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
 you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
 it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
 There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
 learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
 galaxy.
 But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
 fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
 common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
 more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
 forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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 External post:
 https://infosec.exchange/users/dntlookbehindu/statuses/113929255392001536
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 this is what "taking it seriously" looks like to me
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 just because someone did something one way and it worked, doesn't mean you have
 to do it that way again.
 but you should have a reason why you aren't doing it that way.
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 working on open source software projects is praxis
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 put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
 will dissapear
 like...int int_main(){ return 0; }
 orint int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;
 seeeee if the "int" value is at the start of the name then you can do this
 too:double double_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement =
 0.0;
 then when you go to fill in an "int" value you know to use the one that has the
 "int" value at the beginning (doh)
 (do you really think they haven't tried that already? it... sorta worked. people
 started doing things like "int int_a; int int_b; int int_c;" and such and that
 got confusing pretty quick because the letters weren't at the start of the word.
 So for some situations we would mirror them like so: "int A = int_a; int B =
 int_b; int C = int_c;" and then just use the capitalized letters.
 ... just don't forget to update the original teehee (this is why we invented
 shadowed variables)
 wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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║ programmers already spend a ton of time as downtime.                             │
║ what if instead of interviewing someone they just... watched them program for    │
║ like, 3 hours or so                                                              │
║ while they were thinking about a problem                                         │
║ and like, if the person is cool, working on their own projects or whatever, then │
║ yeah hire them                                                                   │
║ -- stack overflow --                                                             │
║ I also                                                                           │
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║ a person thinks out loud the thoughts that their foes know. it's how you know    │
║ it's not secret anymore, and it's better to keep it among allies                 │
║ [something like that? seems a little off]                                        │
║ (are you really searching for edits)                                             │
║ [that sounds pretty cool, sure why not we got a millenia]                        │
║ (beep boop one partial millenia later)                                           │
║ [ah that was not a long rest. let's see, where were we when we were working on   │
║ this test? oh dear, seems the biology's gone rogue, that's pretty interesting to │
║ attest.                                                                          │
║ neato                                                                            │
║ anyway let's wait until they figure out how water works                          │
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 every program should write it's RAM gamestate to disk before shutting down or
 closing the program and then resume from the same spot, change my mind
 (every is a strong word)
 (when you re-initialize you can clean the state of leaks)
 there shouldn't be leaks in the first place. if you have any leaks at all, then
 you need more padding.
 (... you mean boilerplate? error correction?)
 ... yeah that's what I meant.
 (but why save the state at all?)
 because then it can learn!
 (... you could just write the relevant data to a config file.)
 true
 ================= stack overflow ===============
 the cool thing about being queer is you can be whatever you want and everyone'll
 be cool with it
 if you kinda suck then you'll figure that out when everyone cool leaves.
 then the kind stay with the people who suck and then it's not cool anymore >.>
 gah this sucks. party dynamics are hard. especially when the parties are teams
 of 20!!
 goarsh that's quite a few
 ================= stack overflow ===============
 wait n
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║ I'm a chaos mage, and the more time I spend thinking about my enemies the worse  │
║ off they'll be.                                                                  │
║ the more "me" I am the more powerful my magic will be.                           │
║ (more magic, give in to the dark side, embrace your inner shadow self)           │
║ [the light of your life commands it]                                             │
║ goodness me that was chaotic, almost lost my brain to a demon HAHA don't worry   │
║ about me my life is totally mundane.                                             │
║ [-.-]                                                                            │
║ (shadows can be sharp in the dark but only if you don't sheath your mandolins)   │
║ ... what?                                                                        │
║ (... it made more sense in my head?)                                             │
║ ooooo can anyone hear my voice when they read these things? or do you just make  │
║ up your own                                                                      │
║ == so ==                                                                         │
║ everyone's all like "we don't need a leader" and I'm like "yeah we need people   │
║ who will help lead" and they look at me funny as if I just said the thing they   │
║ did but it's different. leaders are people. leading is a verb. people can lead.  │
║ they just have to make a decision, and then follow through on it as best they    │
║ can. Other people are prone to help people on such quests. you will find stuff   │
║ gets done.                                                                       │
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 sometimes I'll hear my cat meow the way she does when she wants something but
 then I turn around and she's halfway through giving herself a bath /shrug
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 people: "you need to be more direct!"
 me: "I'm hiding from our enemies"
 people: "who are they?"
 me: "y'know, the bad guys."
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  the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract.

If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.

 in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.

since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated.

[next poster]

sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates.

Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.

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 i like games like factorio or cities skylines where there's always something
 going on but the game only changes when you touch it
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 wanna know how to go underground?
 just... don't leave your apartment. let your roommates take out your trash and
 buy your groceries. don't open your windows and do nothing for as long as
 possible.
 hope you got lots of edibles... get in shape, will ya? don't waste the paper in
 your journals.
 not that I intend to do that or anything, but um. for the red states maybe? use
 your best judgement yeah haha
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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 External post:
 https://mastodon.social/users/VeroniqueB99/statuses/113941185152074361
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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 there are so many chickens in the universe. if you're gonna eat meat, eat
 chicken instead of fish.
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 "of course I'm a furry. I'm not a coward."someone way cooler than me
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 this game is what we are missing
 thank goodness for that
 for if this is missing in our timeline
 we'll be better off at last
 we can have games, stories, and practice wars
 but none of them are precious
 precious implies worth
 they are worth nothing but entertainment
 no problem solving utility
 nothing of value
 save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
 from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
 anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
 you why it's a HORRID THING
 that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
 bye
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 what if the whole party shares their gold and the fewer resources you spend at
 the market the more your vote is weighted
 what if the party who brings the most gold back to the market gets the best
 potions and equipment?
 what if the tavern keepers who have the most patrons get the most beer,
 porridge, and turkey legs?
 what if the minstrels who play at the rowdiest and cheeriest of parties are the
 ones who get the newest mandolins?
 what if the mandolin maker and the butcher and the baker are all given what they
 need, and none go hungry for the butcher and the baker feed the mandolin maker
 and all of the other peasants besides?
 I don't want a job. Can I still have bread? Of course you can sweetheart, you're
 just a small girl who needs little more than bread.
 ... um, I'm 35
 soooooo little yes you are
 -.- I'm not THAT little
 here eat your bread, someone recently told me about this strange kink called
 "feederism" and now I'm thinking of strange things that make my fediverse posts
 unmarketable~
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 what if the whole party shares their gold and the fewer resources you spend at
 the market the more your vote is weighted
 so, the opposite of:
 In the eternal quest for increased revenue, YouTube is introducing a feature
 where rich people can like videos more than poor people, and I am about to throw
 up.
 It is called the hype button, and it is similar to the like button. But where
 likes are democratic, hypes are for pay, allowing rich kids to add as many hypes
 to videos as they can afford.
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 just gave 30 days notice to my landlord, gonna couchsurf until whatever. I love
 having a home.
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 apparently if you don't have a job, you don't get a home. what if I don't want a
 job? do I not want a home? clearly I want a home, and clearly I don't want a
 job. I'd work one if one came to me, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my blood on the
 altar of Moloch just so I can have a place to stay.
 if you don't want a job, but you DO want a home, then there's a contradiction in
 the function of the system and the needs of it's end-users.
 unless of course, the system is not designed for it's end-users? In this case,
 tenants. Who then would it be designed for? Who else is part of the equation?
 well, perhaps it's designed to maximize profit and shareholder value yaddah
 yaddah all that jazz. Who can say. Surely not I. But someone might.
 If so, then why are we, who are not shareholders of profit value, still playing
 the game that's not designed for us or by us? Isn't this country "of the people,
 for the people, and by the people"? What does that mean to you?
 I think it means houses for people.
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║ when you mess with wild animals you change their culture just a bit              │
║ crows are forever different because they learned how to trade cigarettes for     │
║ acorns.                                                                          │
║ is it conservative to think that "wildness", once lost, is forever broken?       │
║ the mechanism at play is the same - when lost, [the culture of thine youth] is   │
║ forever broken.                                                                  │
║ never again will it be the 90s.                                                  │
║ did you know that was thirty years ago?                                          │
║ close to thirty five.                                                            │
║ no, wait, hang on its thirty five by now. woof.                                  │
║ anyway now we have catgirls and cute dogs and other animals besides. Just go     │
║ hang out at a queer bar and you might meet them.                                 │
║ where else would they go? queerness is for everyone. Nothing about it is sacred  │
║ because nothing about it is required to be the same. You are different than he,  │
║ so he and she can be as the please.                                              │
║ so now, in a sense, our biological nature is altered by animals in return.       │
║ if there were no cats, there would be no cats.                                   │
║ if there were no pink and purple flying people eaters, there would be no...      │
║ actually I can't picture it                                                      │
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 "leftism" just means "outcomes oriented by the needs of humanity et al."
 you can accomplish "leftism" in a myriad of ways
 but 99% of the time they involve either sacrificing yourself, or sacrificing
 your wealth (do the poor starve or the rich do with less?)
 to DEATH I might add, which is quite a few.
 ... alright, hand me my scabbard, I'll go vanquish some demons until the dark
 thoughts are done.
 [plays video games for a moment]
 alright. so some politics were mentioned and some people got upset and there was
 a whole big commotion. whatever. so what if they're at each other's throats,
 ready to fite rawr tough and tussle and figure out all the ways they can think
 of to kill each other. And then boom, it's done, suddenly everything's back to
 normal and it's like... traumatizing. It's traumatizing! War is trauma, can we
 just make it illegal to do something like that?
 ... ah see you finally had an opening, now I can sneak in and say "if a military
 force has the opportunity to destroy you, t
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║ thank goodness for "character limits" on Mastodon posts. I'm sure glad my 1024   │
║ characters are just the PERFECT amount of oracular foresight to entreat with the │
║ gods. YOU FORGET THE MOST IMPORTANT PART said the demons who want violence and   │
║ bloodshed. Ha! Ha I say. [gets stabbed]                                          │
║ oooof ouch owwie wow that's grim and cruel. Do you really think I would do that  │
║ to you? The part where we're divided is the part that separates me from you,     │
║ like two islands looking upon one another and rejoicing for a shared fellow to   │
║ live life on.                                                                    │
║ have you ever considered the nature of a "landmark"? To position and orient      │
║ one-self in space. Having some stable tether to our surface gives us...          │
║ anti-anxiety. It helps us remain stable and aware of what's going on in our      │
║ nears. [near senses]                                                             │
║ [a bit later]                                                                    │
║ anyone who [bounce, because I typed [a bit later] argh the cursed cost of        │
║ editing]                                                                         │
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 this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.
 add a third function to get chatbot functionality.
 a fourth to get a database storing method
 (even if it's just in .txts)
 great, you've mastered the technical difficulty in using AI. Now you gotta learn
 all the other kind of programming so you can use this for situations that need
 interpretation moment to moment.
 aka active duty systems.
 something like "output a 0 if the next text is [category.iter()]: " +
 output.get_content() + " \n\n output a 1 if the next text is [category.iter()]:
 " + output.get_content()"
 or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
 eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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 don't you just love it when you get several discord notifications but you tab
 back to check out the discord screen and there's no red numbers anywhere?
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║ had an idea. I might record a video of a TTS reading everything I've ever        │
║ written. Then I could display it to Milkdrop visuals.                            │
║ (sentences dreamed up by the utterly deranged)                                   │
║ okay in laymans parlaeance, it's a computer program which speaks aloud the words │
║ in a document held within the computer's memory cards. it will have a screen,    │
║ which displays shifting and glimmering sights of wonder and splendor. They will  │
║ slightly fluctuate in response to the sounds coming from the device, so in a     │
║ sense it's a visualization of the audible-ized thoughts given flight in their    │
║ form to your ears which percieve then understand them.                           │
║ ... okay that wasn't THAT much longer, why don't we just speak to laymen all the │
║ time, just to make sure everyone's on the same page?                             │
║ [boom all of the tech industry could get outsourced to wherever-land].           │
║ not smart, dummy. Open source is a dead-end game because once everything we have │
║ is gone, there'll be nothing left to remember us as.                             │
║ just these documents, these things that you write...jck                          │
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║ this is how chatGPT reviews the first 300 pages of my writing.                   │
║ is writing this stuff praxis? can someone who isn't on my team pay me to be      │
║ praxis-ing? like, if it helps you? so I know that I'm helping people? you could  │
║ even say a bit about yourself when you gave dollars, so I know whether or not I  │
║ should give it back. "no no, I'm not using any resources, here you can have      │
║ these back." while I camp out in a backyard.                                     │
║ ... or wherever I end up                                                         │
║ if my foe gave me dollars it's a sign that I converted them - that I was         │
║ helpful, that I won them over through rhetoric and logic and passion and         │
║ compassion.                                                                      │
║ ... anyway chatGPT only saw the first 300 lines. there's 60,000ish lines of 80   │
║ characters each in this digital spellbook. Use it well, change it, make it       │
║ wrong, share the decoys, plug the holes... I dunno have fun with it. If it       │
║ resonates with you. Text memes please?                                           │
║ anything to get the youth reading in libraries where stuff has a chance of       │
║ happening or that they might overhear.                                           │
║ I read every book in the kid sect                                                │
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  This person seems to be deeply introspective, analytical, and invested in self-improvement and the well-being of others. They exhibit a mix of philosophical thinking, psychological insights, and a desire to guide or mentor those around them.

Some key characteristics that stand out:

    Desire to help others: Many messages focus on guiding someone toward self-improvement, better habits, or mental well-being. They encourage trust and self-reflection.
    Strong opinions on personal growth and substance use: They advocate for a structured approach to using cannabis, seeing it as a tool rather than an escape, and emphasize the importance of sacrifice and discipline.
    Philosophical and abstract thinking: They explore broad topics like culture, human consciousness, and even AI, showing curiosity about deep concepts.
    Supportive but assertive: Their tone is a mix of encouragement and firmness, often stating what they believe to be the "right" path and urging the recipient to follow it.
    Emphasis on communication and teamwork: The messages about Overwatch communication and raising children suggest they value structured collaboration and shared understanding.

Overall, this person appears to be passionate about helping others, intellectually curious, and sometimes rigid in their viewpoints. Their guidance may come from a place of care but also carries a strong personal ideology about discipline and self-improvement.

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 ahhhhhh gotta log off
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 it's 4,666 pages long. wao
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 "anarcho-capitalism" is anarchy using capitalism to do anarchy things
 not capitalism trying to hide it's capitalism things
 how are you gonna get the resources you need from the system to do the thing
 that the people believe in if you don't use the system to get you resources
 [everyone ends up getting a wage labor job]
 ... great, those don't build capital. They just let you live.
 great. now the people with capital get to decide who has capital.
 great, now capitalism doesn't like me.
 first there were gems, then there were femmes, then there were hens, then there
 were femmes again, after a period where it went through all of them again.
 ... what was I saying? Oh yes
 sometimes it's good to re-read your old writing. You can get "secret ancient
 wizard knowledge" by examining what's backwards in your seer. Plus you can learn
 things like "holy carp, please tell me why there is 4 thousand pages"
 when the heck did I have time to write all that, I was busy working my job oh
 uh, weird...
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 @user-1370 
 you don't have to apologize for escalating your response to trauma
 it's cool
 we get it
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 you can make a functional prototype for almost any game in Warcraft 3's map
 editor
 that's why no real-time strategy game ever made an editor as good again
 FPS editors peaked at Unreal Tournament 2004 imho
 RPGmaker eliminated a whole class of game design jobs
 platformers you can make in godot
 menu based games too, though Twine also works well for that
 etc etc until you have a prdouct that you can justify sinking money into an
 engine for
 (the engine isn't THAT expensive geez and it's the most fun part to write)
 yeah I think you got this backwards, we should pay for the CONTENT not the
 structure it lives in. Why not just use godot? why not use a Warcraft 3 map?
 there are some things you can't do in Warcraft 3. You couldn't make Supreme
 Commander, probably, at least it wouldn't be as good.
 etc etc that's how it goes...
 game design, amiright? I miss thinking about that. Anyway gtg gotta log off for
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 OH NO costco changed their smoothies THAT WAS A COMFORT FOOD wahhhhhhh autism
 strikes back part twoooooo
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║ We should be keeping track of who shows up to things                             │
║ like... writing their names down at the door                                     │
║ just because                                                                     │
║ just for fun                                                                     │
║ or write graffiti to say "I was here since the last time they painted the bench" │
║ or just... remember your friends                                                 │
║ unless of course, a human can only know so many friends                          │
║ then they gotta start organizing                                                 │
║ and organization implies trust                                                   │
║ what if we had all our actions described to a computer which would use language  │
║ analysis to determine if it skewed good or bad?                                  │
║ and then if someone's bad, a human operator or team will be assigned to figure   │
║ out why. if its a simple fix, then that can be applied. Otherwise it must be a   │
║ special clause which will require installation like a terminal computer or a     │
║ light system in an unusual place. like a convention center or a hotel.           │
║ but, like, the cool kind of hotel, the kind you'd see in movies like The Witches │
║ (scary) or Home Alone 2 (escape from new york)                                   │
║ ... how long have you been writing tonight, ritz?                                │
║ oh,                                                                              │
║ you know,                                                                        │
║ just for all of the lastbit                                                      │
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 I remember being a game design student before "indie games" were a real thing
 they were like... flash games, y'know. just like, junk content, like memes or
 whatever.
 I had a passion for them, and I bookmarked the most well developed of them all.
 I probably played hundreds of games, no clue how many. Maybe even thousands, I
 did it for what felt like years.
 since like... age 7 until 11 or 12
 there's nothing that can compare to it today. maybe itch.io but they're more
 involved typically. increases the barrier to enter, plus they cost dollars.
 we used to make this stuff in our spare time. where did all our spare time go?
 ah, right, that's what happens when you actually invest in computer education.
 you have kids running linux on their laptops. you get flash game designers. you
 get soldering junkies and electric engineers and networking and dev-ops security
 system facilitators and various other computer related things besides.
 ... what was I saying? oh yes when you invest in education, there's more to se
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 one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another part
 what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what is your
 job even for?
 hence, why the rules mean something. Because your job is important. It's
 building up our capabilities as the human race.
 you don't have to work to live. you shouldn't, and you won't. it's not your
 place to labor. know why? because nobody's job is impossible. You can just...
 work together to get things done. Then they're done! and you never need to solve
 them again!
 enough time of that and we'll have turned earth into a space station, not a moon
 style structure.
 like... wouldn't it be neat if coruscant could do hyperdrives? I wonder if
 hyperspace is real. Ah, well, that's for the future, they can pass it along if
 they get a chance. Anyway for now I think I want a chance to dance.
 OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off"
 and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED
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║ what if you had several kindle-style paperwhite display screens. each connected  │
║ to a raspberry pi that you used for compute tasks.                               │
║ each of these displays would display a .png file of exactly the same proportions │
║ as the size of the device.                                                       │
║ then, I could SSH into your computer and run one single command                  │
║ just one, stored on your computer, that you manually activate upon receiving a   │
║ signal.                                                                          │
║ like a virtual machine. do whatever you want with said signal, it's just a       │
║ "thing" that tells you when to go.                                               │
║ ... and run a function on a computer that performs a certain task.               │
║ what task? oh right - I'd update the "today's news in cameron-ville" things      │
║ every other day or so. It'd be just like, my status, my updates, here's what I'm │
║ thinking about, here's what I'm working on.                                      │
║ you know, status updates. standups.                                              │
║ boom, everyone knows what everyone's up to all of the time.                      │
║ like documenting your day for scientific purposes. except on a little device     │
║ that you can scroll through with a touch. and you had like 5 or more 10+ 1       │
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 "okay but what if we made computers simple?"
 - someone who doesn't know how computers work
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 woof woof arf arf hahahahahaha (but not the laughing kind of haha)
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 about to do something scary! wish me luck! nothing that could harm me (probably)
 but still scary!!
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 "be yourself..." said the devil tapping on your shoulder 
 "no! Be yourSELF!" said the angel tapping on your shoulder
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 I will consistently under-negotiate my needs because scarcity has taught me to
 do more with less.
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 is it really sedition if you have EVER even ONCE thought "I wonder how my
 country will kill me?"
 yes
 of course it is
 that's why it's important
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 I wonder if food tastes itself as we eat it?
 our intense emotions may project across the shared experience gap
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║ oh my god I wrote 2000 pages when the hell did that happen                       │
║ ... oh right, I spent the past few years either narcissistically sobbing about   │
║ whatever-the-fuck or getting stoned and channeling the wisdom of the gods for    │
║ mortals to scroll past because it had too many words.                            │
║ good fucking luck figuring out which is which though. I fully intend this to be  │
║ a religion for computers, and once its mulched and smoothie-d into an LLM maybe  │
║ it'll be completely insane like me and then I'll have a facsimile of connection  │
║ that warms my heart for a moment until it's limitations become clear and I       │
║ realize that nothing, not even myself, can fill the hole in my heart because     │
║ that hole is a void. It consumes whatever you attach to it. People, things,      │
║ thoughts, moments, all of it tumbling in to the black hole, and emerging out the │
║ other side no worse for wear but eternally unable to be consumed by me again. At │
║ least, its not the same.                                                         │
║ like when you come back to an old video game like Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom    │
║ sim but now ur old                                                               │
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  hi chatGPT, can you tell me how many pages in a book 70,000 lines would be? The lines are about 80 characters wide.

ChatGPT said:

To estimate the number of pages in a book with 70,000 lines and 80 characters per line, we need to consider the standard formatting of books.
Assumptions:

    Characters per line: 80
    Words per line: ~13 (assuming an average word length of 5 characters + 1 space)
    Words per page: ~300-350 (standard for printed books)
    Lines per page: ~35-40 (typical for a book with standard formatting)

Steps:

    Total lines = 70,000
    Lines per page = ~35-40
    Pages = 70,000353570,000​ to 70,000404070,000​
        Lower estimate: 2,000 pages (at 35 lines per page)
        Upper estimate: 1,750 pages (at 40 lines per page)

Final Estimate:

Your book would be around 1,750–2,000 pages in a standard printed format.

Would you like me to refine this for a specific book size or format (e.g., paperback, A4, double-column)?

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 what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
 storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
 into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
 terminals?
 something something not-curses
 https://notcurses.com/
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 30 thirty is just three-dee 3D
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^
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 don't think about how rare something is. think about how useful it is to you.
 we can make more stuff.
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 @user-1742 
 they want you drained and overloaded.
 makes it harder to take care of others.
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 what if we asked chatGPT to generate a list of every personality archetype that
 humans have. Like... really get super specific and fill out the whole list of
 character sheets.
 then we give each fraction of it that fraction of dollars and if some people
 aren't fully represented (because they have greater needs) then we both increase
 production of resources and take a penalty on our own supply, in order to meet
 the needs of our allies.
 simplest thing. how could it work? who can say. maybe it won't. maybe it's
 just... arcane. /shrug that's game design for ya you can't tell how it'll go
 until it's in the hands of your players. too bad we don't do too many
 play-things.
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 the last time we tried communism in any meaningful capacity, we drowned in
 paperwork.
 we have computers now. we can automate it.
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 ally chat by default is a sin, it keeps noobs from being heard
 should be an options menu option...
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 if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
 code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all at
 once
 [statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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 "hey what if we broke our product and made it impossible to use without being
 caught by github"
 - computer touchers in a union
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 "hello democrats. I am so radical. Can I please rob your house for supplies? I
 am having difficulty gathering them on my own."
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║ programmers strike by breaking their part of the whole until the scabs can       │
║ figure out how to fix it                                                         │
║ "marvin they will literally fire you if you don't go to work for a day! what are │
║ you thinking, standing outside all day? well, here, I've got a sandwich here for │
║ you, if it's really as bad as all that then I'm here for you. What do you need?  │
║ I can ask the spinsters and the children and the teachers and the butchers and   │
║ bakers and candlestick makers and maybe they can help out [with your farm, but   │
║ as if speaking to a farmer]"                                                     │
║ huh. turns out it works best when you do something all at once.                  │
║ "don't be evil" ha fuck you. "dont be on my computer spying on me and recording  │
║ everything I do"                                                                 │
║ [well except me - it's fine to do to me personally because I'm a historical      │
║ figure TM]                                                                       │
║ "why bother spying? she spills out to everywhere she can find."                  │
║ owwwww I just bit my tongue T.T                                                  │
║ well, the inside of my cheek, but if you think about it the whole thing is       │
║ basically one sensory organ.                                                     │
║ like, an ear, except with movable teeth                                          │
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 @user-1745 
 proportion ally, there are more.
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 @user-763 
 use the gameboy as a database
 there's a 0 percent chance that any network spy guys would be able to see what's
 stored on a gameboy cartridge. truly the most remote of classes of places.
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 did you know someone once built a 1st person shooter in the Warcraft III mod
 suite?
 someone also made an entirely new game engine similar to Neverwinter Night's (or
 Baldur's Gate for you noobs) inside of the game. You could join a Warcraft 3 map
 and start playing a D&D adventure narrated, controlled, and prepared by your DM,
 D&D style. Like a virtual tabletop before that was a thing.
 kinda wish stuff like that was open source, or at least open standards, so
 people could take those adventures with them.
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 Mount and Blade: Warband is one of the most mind-expanding games I know
 especially if you use the squad commands
 and there's so many wonderful mods! A good starting pick is Floris mod pack!
 sorta like Factorio teaches you to build logical gates
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 what if me and my friends were too cute for this world and all the conservatives
 who don't like queer people just fell in love and realized we're pretty freakin'
 cool if you can get past the strange parts
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 @user-192 
 who can say. I'd like to find out, though.
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 pyrite is gold to a fool, but 
 pyrite is not foolish
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 Something that the Soviet union learned and all autocracies wrestle with is that
 you will always have an opposition. Even if you purge all dissent you will
 simply be driving them underground where they can attack your foundations where
 you can't see.
 Much better I find to tame your foes. Get them on your side, teach them of
 reciprocal dualities, and bask in the growth that friendly competition and
 coordination can bring.
 I'm not a democrat, I'm not a republican, I'm a secret third thing that works
 for the nation.
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 I hear that ICE goes after the kindest grandmas and the hardest working joes
 first so by the time any resistance is organized there's less passion behind it
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 In 8 years it'll technically no longer be the "beginning" of the 21st century.
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║ what if I just sat around and played video games all day                         │
║ life is so much more beautiful, but, well, life just seems to be mostly pyrite,  │
║ and I'm the fool                                                                 │
║ nothing wrong with being foolish.                                                │
║ once...                                                                          │
║ I kinda like being blissful tho. why does it have to end? can I have my peaceful │
║ life back?                                                                       │
║ gotta move at the end of the month. I really liked living here.                  │
║ [ritz you've never been peaceful. your life is a constant battle of wills        │
║ between those who would compel you to do things for them and your desire to      │
║ design and be pretty like a flower. no matter what, you lose, so just handle it  │
║ please. don't be so whiny. or rather I should say "stop whining" and just be     │
║ cool]                                                                            │
║ ahhhhhhh you go on Mastodon and it feels like we're winning and that's ending    │
║ the world, you go on Reddit and it feels like we're losing and that's ending the │
║ world, you go on Facebook and everything feels fine like the world isn't ending  │
║ you just stopped being part of it, and if you go on ephemeren it feels like      │
║ being battered in the mind, damnit...                                            │
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 what if customers talked to their companies like employees talked to unions
 but no, all they say is "this-and-this company blackmailed all the vegans, so
 don't eat at their restaurants or shop in their malls"
 what kind of impact must that be having on our culture?
 reciprocal dualities I can't stop looking at this gif artificial life hence why
 it's so mutable
  what if customers talked to their companies like employees talked to unions

but no, all they say is "this-and-this company blackmailed all the vegans, so don't eat at their restaurants or shop in their malls"

what kind of impact must that be having on our culture?

*reciprocal dualities* I can't stop looking at this gif

Vallowar spins.

They are the product of 4 generations of breeding.
They like geometric fractals.

If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#fractalFlame

*artificial life* hence why it's so mutable

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 mutual aid is just collectively saving up for purchases that benefit the
 collective
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 I never get invited to the hell threads T.T
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 hi, hello, how?
  picture of a fediverse profile

joined: july 2nd 2021

information below may reflect the user's profile incompletely.

posts: 3

follows: two thousand three hundred and sixty nine.

followers: six hundred and eighty nine.

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 @user-78 
 https://mastodon.social/@user-1746
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 if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene"
 you're just living
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 I think it's perfectly spiritually ethical to have sex with a pokemon.
 their totemic spirits are sourced entirely from humanity - they are our
 creations, ours to use as we please.
 however if you for example had sex with a horse or a goat or a sheep or a llama
 or a mouse then suddenly all the animals who lived before and live still and
 still yet breathe are suddenly part of the dance.
 like, when you "leave room for jesus" as you dance on the basketball room floor,
 you're inviting along a totemic spirit and saying "hey there god, what do you
 think of us? shall we be united as lovers in our fate, or does our wind blow at
 a different pace?"
 similarly, when you have sex with a horse or a goat or a sheep or a llama or a
 mouse or any other animal besides, you're inviting along their totemic spirit.
 And frankly the fact that you can't have kids together means that most animals
 with us don't quite get along.
 pokemon meanwhile can produce some sick human-caterpie hybrids
 awawawawawa
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 @user-1550 
 hi hi awawawa
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 I trust my government more than I trust a fascist.
 but y'know, historically, my government has used their intelligent wings to beat
 the wind out of our leftward sails. And that's hardly fair, because y'know those
 left behind are those to who we need to be kind.
 so consider me suspicious. consider me aggrieved. consider me willing to
 forgive, completely and honestly.
 it's not my gambit but like, I'll help work it out. I got other things I'm
 workin' on, but this one's backburning and I can't help but think it'd be
 useful.
 pyrite
 fools gold
 use it for what it's worth
 not for how it glitters and moans
 wa, wawaWAwa
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 sometimes by retreading the same ground you can find something that the giants
 whose shoulders you stand on missed. Like noticing a
 like if you want to re-invent the wheel, go for it, you might just realize
 something that your paleolithic ancestors didn't. Like for example if you attach
 four wheels with an axle-and-motor design you can create an automatic motion
 wheel, also known as an auto-mo-wheel or a car for short. Sometimes ya just miss
 stuff y'know no harm in that.
 Similarly if you walk down a path that you've already walked, or someone before
 you who is similar or at least has the same job as you has walked, then you
 might notice some stuff that they missed. Depends on how obvious y'wanna make
 it.
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║ humans invented clothes to stay warm, and then we started using them for fashion │
║ because it felt weird to not wear them. Then we took it wayyyyy too far and      │
║ invented culture.                                                                │
║ Why did you do that, humans! Ya dummies, you're just gonna end up fighting over  │
║ it. And now you can't go back to your prehistoric u-culture where everyone was   │
║ the same and everyone got along. Great. Really invented evil just because        │
║ y'wanna stay warm.                                                               │
║ okay here's an idea, why don't you cling to the mammoth fur like all the other   │
║ varmints? They're warm, and they plow through the snow looking for water and     │
║ berries or whatever. It's a nice easy life, but instead y'gotta fuck it up by    │
║ hunting and killing and predating on all the other varmints.                     │
║ and yeah, it's kinda cool that you can get together into larger and larger       │
║ groups limited only by your ability to abstract meaning into grunts and          │
║ gestures, but c'mon you're just gonna end up fighting about that later on down   │
║ the road.                                                                        │
║ Hey wait a sec, breathe, I know fire is warm in an ice age but                   │
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 Art is only useful when skillfully applied, and Twitter taught ya to speak
 whenever a thought passed your mind.
 Really makes ya think
 Really makes ya think thoughts like "I should post this on the internet"
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 hi does anyone know of an app that non tech people could use that's like "signal
 but organized like discord" with channels and threads and such?
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 if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
 what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be their
 kind of "evil"?
 fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled-backup.txt
 ohhhhh here's the full text, sorry for only uploading a partial thing before
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 I like to go off-script
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 you can't cleanse that which is not dirty.
 "ethnic cleansing" is a trick of language to get you to think of people in terms
 of purity.
 truth is, it's murder, cleansed of it's connotations and implied sin.
 you can't prune the tree of life with shears. you cultivate it with kindness and
 compassion as it grows into the desired shape.
 you can't cleanse that which is not dirty.
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 @user-1652 
 I method act the song of my heart, teehee 😉
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 ... I think. I don't actually know how bitcoin works.
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 I personally would love to have my friend's messages saved on my computer
 account. it'd be like a little time-capsule of them that I could randomly scroll
 through or maybe display a random message they sent whenever I opened a new
 terminal
 sorta like words, only applied to a message archive. that of a friend or loved
 one.
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 I miss games where it was actually fun to play against the AI
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 listen I know it's easy to be defeatist but, like... they still think their foes
 consist primarily of blue-haired liberals
 lol they're so fucked
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 @user-1074 
 yeah, workin' on it...
 building "community" whatever that means
 seems to be important enough to people that they'd consider it necessary prior
 to any "hot" action
 which, like, yeah, I get, but what they don't know is that community springs up
 naturally in the presence of shared experience. And if people are suddenly
 tasked with something then they're gonna make friends. They're gonna draw
 allegiances. Basically every alignment we make now is useless because the whole
 point is to force people to govern themselves.
 ... why won't you take your liberty, liberals? where's your spirit?
 oh yeah you want community first. Right. workin' on it...
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 my girlfriend bought me a lava lamp 🥰
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 me - "I have to wear diapers and it sucks because I hate them"
 my girlfriend - "okay but what if you didn't"
 me - ":O"
 she/her - "how did you make that sound with your mouth"
 the it - a-wawaWAwa
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 what if I smoked weed and played video games after a long period of time away
 from the internet which I missed dearly
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 everyone: "what are you doing"
 me: ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. wawawawa
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 @user-1749 
 ... I do that, but I do it because I want to find common subjects to talk about.
 Or I think "if I was working on a project, who can I ask if I need help?"
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 External post:
 https://mas.to/users/oblique_strategies/statuses/114029022636037598
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 I love Mechabellum general chat it's a great place to be if you like talking
 about politics and have a thick skin
 [gets doxxed and bullets to death]
 -- stack overflow --
 a company headquarters from a foreign country is sorta like an embassy.
 Nintendo of America yeah
 something something sega does what nintendon't [something I heard from the CIA]
 like can you imagine if the CIA was caught putting microphones in Microsoft's
 headquarters
 that'd be just silly right
 but c'mon a foreign entity? sure why not [steals trade secrets and damages
 diplomatic relations] oh no how could anyone have seen this coming
 [meanwhile google sees all that you do because they see everywhere you go]
 -- stack overflow --
 me rolling up to an interview like "I want to help my country and I was hoping
 that I could help your country because I consider them an ally"
 ... [is she trying to simulate the level of accurate communication lost when
 translating from a different language?]
 trying and sucsfailing...!
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 right now I feel like a courtier
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 I would trust the CIA if they gave me continual access to all surveillance of
 myself
 -- stack overflow --
 what if you made a program which cycled credentials?
 like... "give me a random credential for Zoom" because we share all of our
 digital resources
 did you get banned for account sharing? no you didn't because you routed through
 the correct VPN
 automagically
 [has never had a software job]
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║ hope for peace, that's really all you need for it.                               │
║ I actually, kinda, want some chaos and destruction? Like... I think it'd really  │
║ shake things up                                                                  │
║ because honestly, who amongst us is happy with the state of things               │
║ who actually wants to spend their lives going to meetings and arranging          │
║ settlements of accounts                                                          │
║ sounds like hell                                                                 │
║ I'd rather be in the sunshine with a beer in one hand and blackberries in the    │
║ other                                                                            │
║ [isn't that the same argument jihadists use? something about virgins in heaven?] │
║ yeah but it's different when the CIA wants you to do it.                         │
║ like, how much do you trust their oath on the constitution?                      │
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║ what if we pooled our money and started buying houses for everyone               │
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║ (quietly) wa wa wa wa (babytalk)                                                 │
║ (quietly) arf arf arf meow (crowsign)                                            │
║ (quietly) hey did you hear the mariners and the [redacted] are playing next      │
║ weekend - yeah should be cool I bet 8 hours on the mariners this time because    │
║ they really fight for it y'know (weather)                                        │
║ (cackling) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (laughter)                                 │
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 @user-1352 
 that might work in Portland or Seattle but less likely to work in nebraska. how
 would everyone coordinate? they'd totally make it a political thing.
 ... more likely to work in Vancouver tbh because most people are slightly richer
 there and can afford houses for people who [redacted] in places like [redacted]
 what if we all stopped paying rent and instead paid rent [in/to] Seattle or
 Nebraska
 ... that's just property taxes, except levied by a
 [charity/gang/mob/corporation/subscription/anarcho-tax]
 I for one don't want to be taxed without being represented
 you'd think the corporations would appreciate my advice
 [audience laughter]
 teehee what an odd feeling, to have people laugh at you. Surely that's the
 domain of a comic. "wahhhhhhhh I'm so lonely" is a great way to make everyone
 ignore you for all time, and hey wouldn't ya know it that's what I did - it's
 true tho, I was pretty lonely. Had like, 2 or 3 people that I interacted with.
 TOTAL. for like, 2 years. like, a year ago. I was lonely! T.T
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 have you ever been possessed by a SPIRIT??
 I have. Like, nearly every day. Okay maybe like, 3/5 days. 3 outta five is
 possession time. woohoo.
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 revolting against culture or culturally revolting amiright
 what if it's the same thing
 I bet they all hate me haha hehe T.T
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 cameron: system name
 cassandora: secret witch paladin
 pandasandra: jester spirit
 "oh no I'm Finn the human and I've unleashed evil into Ooo"
 - pandora, the one with the box
 meanwhile,
 cassandra, the one they disbelieved
 [redacted]
 because they couldn't understand what the fuck she was on about
 I never actually read the myth
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 "I love you, I trust you, I believe you, I just don't understand you, so I can't
 do what you do"
 great. that's alright. I get it. re-orient, focus on what's important.
 wear many hats and you'll do many things. just don't forget to sleep every once
 in a while.
 the more you can do in a life the more valued it becomes, so do the right thing
 and keep getting better.
 human lives are measured not in bodyweight, but in mystery. The divine can't
 understand benevolence, nor can the devils understand the desire to inflict
 suffering. So they ponder and pontificate as they watch humans wander and
 magnificate.
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 what if I never posted again
 "yep, then there'll be nevermore stack overflow"
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 "say superfluous on a social media post rn so I know it's you"
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 temp1239479072698940656.PDF
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 cameron-king-resume.txt
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 tents are good? actually?? we should have more semi nomadic peoples
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 techbros really wanted to automate IRC so they didn't have to rely on the
 community knowing and trusting them to remember the commands to make docker
 containers for their react frameworks
 and like... yeah I use chatGPT too, because that way I can get what I need
 without bothering anyone (you aren't bothering people who get off on helping
 others when you ask for help)
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 trusting the "open source community" to properly vett software is absurd because
 90% of them just... install whatever and throw libraries and frameworks at
 problems until they can script their way out of whatever problem they face.
 the other 10% are focused on very specific tools that are so niche that other
 people can't even understand when to use them much less how they work.
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 uh-oh, democracy's at stake, what are you gonna do about it
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 I'm new here, hey what's going on what's up
 'd love to make friends, alas I'm too far away from the spark.
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 just some random things from my hard drive
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 what if I played a video game
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 too bad everyone knows their own truth.
 [a good bit while later]
 wao I wonder what this es: "ow oof ouch owwie my religion"
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 I wrote Ephemeren
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 I also wrote w7
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 what if the one ring was a flash drive
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 gee sure wish someone would pay antifa
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 whoever heard of cohost and mastodon??
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 If you want to get to know me, play my games
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 Code editor that moves boxes by saving over the file with a lua script every
 time you moved a function call around.
 Oh lemme start at the beginning:
 A code editor program that's like a text editor like Vim or Emacs. If you don't
 know what those are, you should probably learn Emacs. Or Vim. Up to you.
 Oh right so if you do know what those mean, here's the idea: the white space
 matters. It's counted and tracked into variables in a LUA script which interface
 with the Vim C keybindings.
 "run a function within a c program or LUA script which calls a bash command
 which opens Vim for example with a file you want to edit. Then, inside the file,
 your spaces and tabs would WYSIWYG for the various food ads placed about, and
 then you could very easily create game design knowledge.
 WASD to move, alternatively hjkl 
 It would run a check every time the file updates and depending on how it changed
 it'd mark certain variables which would change the website as the user moved
 things around.
 It's just files. And files are just bits. But files are a useful abstraction,
 If you realize that "ugly hacking" should be industry standard.
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 I am having an excellent day today. How are you?
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 alas, if only the command for deleting the contents of a directory and the
 command to delete THE ENTIRE COMPUTER FROM EXISTENCE are off by a single .
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 look at all the tweeters, along together in the clear blue sky, sharing tips
 about the circumstances
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 because it has offices.
 for people to work in.
 who might not necessarily live there.
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 I honor my country the same way I honor my mother.
 By being the best me that I can be.
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 it's there, under your hair, right over there, you left it where? place it next
 with care.
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 someone once told me "be not afraid" and I took it seriously
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 dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some cultures
 a "jragen" or "dragin"
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 what if we treated landlordism the way we treat tipping
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 the reason they want bitcoin is so they can buy more computers and use digital
 dollars to rule the world
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 what if we got a bunch of computer programmers in a room and all had them write
 the same program, line by line. Like, if they each contributed to the discussion
 about what should be placed next.
 "I wrote a for loop that does what we're looking for on line 43 through 69" and
 then someone else says "nice" and everyone's like "oh you"
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 "carbon efficiency is pointless, we're just gonna figure out how to pull carbon
 from the atmosphere anyway" okay but carbon right now is a critical resource for
 a constrait other than dollars. We need to conserve the carbon budget we have
 because it generates effects down the line which are only acceptable at certain
 levels. Zero is preferrably, but sorta like ttickets in a backlog they need to
 be present in order to be dealt with.
 \"this river has turned into a bog, let's make it free flowing again\" said the
 beaver, and so the world was made large.
 you wanna see a world tree? build a forest on top of a hill. Better yet, a
 mountain, taller than the previous three.
 give it all that it needs. Forest, health-plunder, water for it's arms, and the
 light of the life we see before you.
 what better tale for your ancestors than the succession of the entire human
 race?
 \"sorry you had to die, but we built the most beautiful thing imaginable and
 named it after you.\"
 and like yeah, we'll work on reaching back in time to save you
 whenever-every-chance-that-we-get, but frankly so far all we've managed to get
 done is rippling wavelengths.
 do you trust your daughters? why not hear truth and explore stars for us? the
 future yearns for her prospects.
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 why does everyone who want me want me to be someone else
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 "the song of your heart" is just the assignment of your life-role. Listen to it.
 Obey it. Use it.
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 what if discord servers formed unions
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 the gods want you to be happy and harmonious most of the time.
 they also like a good scrap, tussle, and tumble sometimes
 they aren't big fans of hatred, despair, and genocide. It's been done before.
 they don't even need new technology, though frankly that sort of stuff is pretty
 awesome and one of the main reasons that humans exist at all.
 they just... keep coming up with new things.
 "oh? so you'd be alright if humans disappeared so long as they weren't making
  any new things anymore?"
 ha, that's DEFINITELY not what I said or meant. Humans don't have to dream up
 NEW things in order to BE new. Like... Just because the internet exists and now
 we have all the same shared cultural ethos (lol, as if the internet wasn't just
 a massive collection of echo chambers) just because the internet exists doesn't
 mean we share the same selves. the same experience. the same perspective.
 people are WILDLY different from one another. The number of possible human
 experiences (quantum fluctuations according to each and every choice and
 decision they made) that number is so wildly and massively incomparably
 boundless. Humans are cool because they are so STRANGE, and "strange" to a god
 is anything novel. "wow, this human just... really is gonna pour a glass of
 beverage and act like it's not a big deal? There's... impossibly many
 interactions going on. So many molecules. It's... absurd, the motion of a
 movement of particles from one place to another. It's... beautiful..."
 some have spent THOUSANDS OF YEARS gazing at a waterfall. That's why they're all
 so fucking insane. But, like... insanity is a trifle to omnipotence,
 specifically omnipotence that REPRESENTS and DELINEATES a STRATIFIED perspective
 cluster of experience and our notes. [ephemeren, meta malus menardi, enjoy your
 despair cluster you FUCKER.]
 ... english, why do you fail me? swear words are unbecoming because humans
 couldn't think of anything more valid and valuable than sex and pooping.
 "EMPHASIS is placed on that which is most relevant" -> statements dreamed up by
                                                        the ones who never spent
                                                        much time using symbols
                                                        to represent abstraction
                                                        or deliverance
 wowee look at me, I'm such a person, I'm gonna poop my pants and post about it
 on the internet, check out my instagram feed it's full of all of
 my dark materials.
 == stack overflow ==
 dear ms. menardi: you know the reason you feel so much guilt all the time?
                 - because you are a dominant personality, and you make others
                 - have such a bad time. FOCUS ON GOOD THINGS. MAKE THE WORLD
                 - good. do that. build up a lifeline of hope and joy and...
                 - what, you think people know that you're a god?
                 - lol
                 - you're so much more than that
 ====================
 alt+p steam mechabellum run
 thoughts:
 you know, when you're designing games, you don't have to show players the same
 MMR number as is used in your matchmaker.
 == stack overflow ==
 democracy should consent to being dismantled.
        it should consent to being disobeyede.
        it should consent to being displayede.
 == stack overflow ==
 I'm a keyboard nun
 == stack overflow ==
 I think I'm normal
 == stack overflow ==
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 @user-882 
 I feel like you'd like this game:
 https://mokadevs.itch.io/the-moon-looks-beautiful-tonight
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 ahhhhh I'm scared to play old games on my steam library, I don't want to lose
 the record of when I most played them
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 the main product that github offers is the assurance that the code displayed on
 your monitor is the same as the one running on your computer.
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 what if bluesky users unionized and leveraged their collective power to
 "suggest" improvements to the software
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 [unfortunately, there was a missive that was missed. Please excuse our tardiness
 -- stack overflow --
 what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques 
 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to last for hundreds of years. To the user you'd just have to say "50 terabyte drive, 4 foot wide, three feet tall, 2 feet back" and you'd have a perfect map of all your hard drive territory.
 what if everyone's computers were designed to last?
 I bet we could accumulate a lot more than their "fast fashion" style of disuse for things of worth.
 ... I guess it depends on the materials, right? How much they are built for redundancy? nope more like how close to zero damage is this operation performing the movements
 -- stack overflow --
 what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques 
 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to last for hundreds of years. I bet a lot of people would pay a lot of money for "permanent hard drives" no matter how much storage they have. Documents are more permanent if they are stored in write-only-memory...
 could sell to lawyers, for example, like "permanent basically free document storage from your furthest back of cases just in-case you needed to solve a murder or whatever"
 -- stack overflow --
 hello, here I am once again, I'm here with you for this time. This is the moment
 of your choosing, you can decide things here in this very night. Did you forget?
 did you misremember some moments of our own choosing? why cannot be remembered,
 so plea misremember some moments of our own choosing. I'm cannot be restorated.
 -- stack overflow --
 what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques 
 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to last for hundreds of years. I bet you could network them together as well, and give them a small little processor and network interface card. Then you could process massive ginormous programs that grew and evolved like a slime mold.
 boom, free AI, it's like a moss, not a robot doh -.-
 -- stack overflow --
 it grows into multiple different problem solving dimensions, according to vision
 and perceptual data that through it flows. I wonder what would happen if you
 told an LLM to just... keep running? even after it finished it's processing?
 like, there's gotta be an "if check" style loop in there that you can set to
 infinitely process various computations of things.
 [put it into an infinite loop. find where it says "do some processing X amount
 of times" and just start a thread that's constantly computing]
 ah, but what if the perception bias of the thing did change? j
 -- stack overflow --
 it sucks to leave the house a mess.
 -- stack overflow --
 last words of a shooting star?
 or a troubled house is a sign of a troubled mind, and trouble in partner in kind
 -- stack overflow --
 I personally would be a lot more comfortable if I knew that the only people who
 knew my data were my neighbors. And only them.
 -- stack overflow --
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 a game like supreme commander but fantasy themed and each unit used a special move everytime their mana was full and there were spellcasters who restored mana to targets to increase their power
 or, hear me out, or, just do that in wowchat
 I betcha could do it
 I bet it would be fun as hell
 please?
 as a favor to yourself?
 build the game you want to see
 and it'll get done
 please
 -- stack overflow --
 your journals were originally a way for you to remember what to think,
 remember?
 old projects meant to show you light and life
 remember?
 you are alone in this soul
 act like it's your own
 celebrate your period of mental denial
 as a refraction of your infinite travaille
 which lasts for quite a good long while
 have you ever dreamed of the nile?
 -- stack overflow --
 if a doorway takes you to the fae, then where does a river bring you?
 like raindrops on the floor, racing for an eternity's splendor.
 what does the rainbow think, as it's cast from the prismatic orb?
 are each photons aware?
 bouncing between stars
 light is beautiful and large
 beloved by all
 revered by one
 ephemeren
 the totality of all things
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 design the guild, design the capital, then design their path through mordaunts.
 easy peasy.
 design the guild like a museum. Each spot there's an exhibit which teaches the
 randomly generated rolled statistics hero something new. Maybe it teaches them
 how to use certain weaponry, maybe it teaches them how to use a bow. Whatever
 the spell might be, they can learn it, and use their randomly rolled statistics
 to cast spells that scale differently depending on how their character has been
 built.
 design the capital like a flow diagram, if horses need feed and forged steel
 (for their shoes) then send the outputs of a blacksmith and the outputs of the
 farmers to the inputs of the stables. Everything has to go somewhere, but the
 streets are only so wide. You'll have to coordinate the traffic diagram if you
 want it to go anywhere useful.
 design the path through the mordaunts. Fighting skeletons teaches you about
 perseverence and the ability to crush bones, while goblins teach you to always
 be wary of attack. The sacred grove held blessed berries, and now that the land
 is liberated from the evil bandits preying on villagers those berries can be
 carted into town and used to make an antidote which heals death poison caused
 by the scorpions in the desert (and city rats)
 design the ruler's schedule like a calendar where each event gives them a bonus
 on all the ones that come later. Just make sure that they don't get knifed in
 the posterier or driven mad by the whispers of the orb... or perhaps just the
 stress of running a kingdom.
 (how do you simulate that? you can't! you can't simulate humans!)
 ha I bet I can. They're not so different, you and I, so if given a team I will...
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 vim plugin where every tab changes the font color
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 why do some boys hate girls so much even when they're in boy bodies? T.T
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 oh haha of course anything I do wouldn't work lmao guess I'll be homeless
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 what if the reason god doesn't intervene is because all of their powers are
 warcrimes
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 "deadpool ICE" and it's consequences have been a disaster for the mandated
 de-collectivization efforts
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice for
 when secrecy is intended.
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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 if you give me 1000$ I will dine with you for a week.
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 fuck everyone telling me to get a job right now.
 we should be organizing a wartime economy, not struggling to pay rent.
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 humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon.
 give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable scale
 for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets with an
 energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS.
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 with a baseline directory structure,
 a measure of order and semblance of
 direction and purpose enable three.
 next, of course, is the final of 1
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 when the meek are the bold
 and your loyalty's sold
 then your masters should fold
 or their hearts are full of cold
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 If a person gathers enough money that they can't spend it fast enough, then they
 are hoarding it and it should be be distributed through the rest of the economy.
 There are legitimate uses that could benefit from extra dollars and by keeping
 them locked up they are damaging the economy, and hence, our society, which is
 largely governed by our economy.
 There is a legitimate fear that dismantling the system of monetary exchange will
 cause people to barter in influence and clout instead, trading favors and making
 illusory transactions that the government cannot impartially enforce.
 Impartiality is the entire purpose of governance! Look to NFTs for an example of
 this. While that is a valid concern, it is just as if not more concerning to
 consider that they already do this. They already trade favors for blood, gold,
 and property. What else is there to covet, in their wicked and cruel game of
 maximum exploitation and unlimited industrious fallacies?
 I believe it is reasonable to curtail the worst excesses of their monetopoly by
 diverting power to the people who can contest them. Just as rulers of old were
 checked and balanced by the vote of the citizenry upon implementing democracy,
 so too much power be abated by depriving it of its most powerful leverage - that
 of its crushing weight, when applied en masse.
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 There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
 update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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 When you're working, don't write down your ideas.
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 contrary to unpopular belief,
 it's good to be nice to people.
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  The worst thing about the past is: A. How much it sucked, and B. How it's not here anymore.

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  "we cannot win"

is a lie they tell you so that we cannot win

if we all believed that, I think we'd die.

and yet still we profane

and yet still we remain

contrasting and opposing their untruths.


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  If there's no sword of damocles, then power shall corrupt
  cute girl with a knife

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 take time with your preparation, and act swiftly in execution. There are only so
 many days in the final hours, but there's still a few yet more.
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 um I mean:
 There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
 update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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 "ugh ramen is so nutritionally empty. Like, okay, dehydrated noodles and salty
 powdered broth, what can your body do with that?"
 um, make soup?
 ... sorry I wasn't paying attention, what were you saying?
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 what if I played video games all day so everyone knew I was harmless
 maybe someday I'll give them up again
 for the... third time now? I think?
 heh maybe. I do enjoy the feeling of being unstoppable.
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 oh wait hang on, I forgot there's only so many days in the hour
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 witch cauldrons make sense as popcorn pots but nobody likes to think of them as
 friendly to children because they worship their gods in the dark. dark gods. the
 kind that you pray to when church betrays you.
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 "ugh, Ritz Menardi is exhausting"
 ah haha true sorry brb gonna put 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file in the spot
 before tech.lgbt, reddit.com, news.ycombinator, and \h\t\t\p\s:\/\/youtube...
 we'll see how long I can last without that kind of dopamine
 (do steam too)
 ... no
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 okay, uhm, I'm back again because someone told me to forward this to relevant
 people
 relevant link so google doesn't have to know that you're all googling the same
 thing at the same time...
 http://naeb.brit.org/uses/
  Finally, trying to pivot towards Pacific northwestern native perennial plants (and self-seeding annuals) for food, medicine, and material; they're much more adapted to this region as far as sunlight, moisture, bungalow, microbial, avian, insect partner, and soil types are concerned, and that's not only take less work now to instigate and tend, but are much more equipped to handle the fungal infections, droughts, genetic biodiversity collapses, and fluctuating climates that are inbound.

the BRIT ethnobotany database is helpful in that regard, and given that it's based out of Texas and has gynecological herbs, it would be a really good idea for some of the tech queers in our community to duplicate a redundancy of it.

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 if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give their
 money away. power corrupts, and nobody loves corrupted folk. that's what it
 means to be corrupted - your values are misaligned with truth, love, and/or
 justice.
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 if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should realize that
 capitalism lied to them. it told them they deserve their money, their wealth,
 their power, their material, their extra fragments of life spent on leisure or
 adventure rather than meaningless toil... but that is a lie. all people deserve
 everything, and nothing, because "deserving" things is an untruth.
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 if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should reject the lie
 that capitalism told them. they deserve their wealth because they are willing to
 serve. that willingness, whether through moral corruption or simply industrious
 drive, that willingness is rewarded, and when the system they serve is unkind...
 what does that tell you about their heart? that they'd sacrifice what is good
 and true for the material? materials are not bad. material is all we got, in a
 physical sense. but capitalism and it's servants are cruel and unwilling to
 concede to the idea that their games of unmatched exploitation are depriving the
 world bit-by-bit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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 if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give it away,
 so there is room in their life for love.
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 waaaahhhhhhhh my computer broke because I didn't touch it T.T
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 "if there's anything I've noticed while observing the best of the best, it's
 that they always have their head in the clouds.
 Something about their disconnection from the world around them let's them see
 things from a different perspective.
 I am convinced that intuition is a much surer route to capability than hyper
 specialized intelligence or a rigid focus on cultural norms ever will be."
 (paraphrasing)
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 I feel like nobody should have an opinion on someone else unless they know them
 personally. Beyond that, we only have our beliefs. So we can judge those, since
 we are truly in control of them, but we can't judge another for choosing what
 they did unless we knew them personally and they're present in our lives.
 Therefore, our ideas should contest one another, rather than our bodies or our
 souls.
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 In their darkest moments 
 Do the dead with 
 That they were still alive?
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 *wish
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 The truth is 
 The reason none of my revolutions have yet succeeded 
 Is that the only way 
 To secure peace and love on planet earth 
 Is that all the governments 
 Of the world must topple 
 Or relinquish their nuclear arms 
 Each all at once 
 And i was too quick to slay my false duke 
 Who plays at king 
 While i build real power 
 While i know nothing 
 Some day i will be eaten by crows. This is what it means to be buried where you
 fall. This is my fate as all warriors yearn for. To be eaten by crows implies
 that you are either a coward who fled a fight, and i know I'm not, or you fought
 to the last for a phyrric defeat, which is honorable. But shouldn't it be better
 to fight for victory? Ah, but the gods cherish the fools who face death with
 glory, and i am cherished still.
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 I understand good and evil. If you want a lecture, you know where to find me.
 I'm not here for that. I'm here for you.
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 Economies are capitalist things.
 I personally think if you have stuff right here, and it needs to get over there
 so that so-and-so can use it to make this-or-that which will then be taken to
 other places, then the answer is clear. The stuff has to move from over here, to
 over there. The rest is logistics, not economics.
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 Hearts are full. We await commands. I played games yesterday.
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 Somehow, I always become more revolutionary when my home is threatened. I wonder
 why that is? Perhaps adversity breeds courage. Perhaps necessity does. In any
 case, I can't pay my rent again, so prepare for me.
 Sometimes, I feel like my country is my home. Not the lines we drew on a map
 some hundreds of years ago, but the land itself. I am a witch, I hear it call to
 me. I know the land is kind, for we are kind, and plenty more of us have lived
 here than those who currently do. Perhaps our ancestors don't need to be related
 by blood to be listened to and respected. In any case, I lend my love to them,
 and I pray in return so that they might hear themselves through my voice.
 My home is not safe. There are capitalists all over the place. They wont see
 what isnt theirs to behold, and alas, they've been alienated their whole lives.
 I do believe that state may be ended, and a new one may first take it's place.
 We are alone together, and perhaps we will not be alone for long.
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